Impact Evaluation in Practice
by Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, Christel M. J. Vermeersch · Paul J. Gertler et al.
A World Bank textbook covering randomized assignment, regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, matching and instrumental variables. Readers finish able to choose a credible counterfactual for a given program, size a sample, and read evaluation results critically.
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