Towards Appropriate Impact Evaluation Methods
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The choice of evaluation design depends in part on availability of counterfactuals, investigator control over the intervention, range of potential cases and contexts, and political considerations such as credibility with stakeholders.
“As in other fields, the choice of design will in part depend on the availability of counterfactuals, the extent to which the investigator can control the intervention, and the range of potential cases and contexts [75], as well as political considerations, such as the credibility of the approach with key stakeholders [76].”
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- Authors
- Pattyn, V.
- Affiliations
- Leiden University (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Pattyn, Valérie
- ORCID
- Pattyn, Valérie
- Venue
- The European Journal of Development Research
- Published
- 2019-03-25
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 174-179
- ISSN
- 0957-8811 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-9728
- OpenAlex
- W2923624462
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 0.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- European Journal of Development Research (publishedVersion)
- Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
- Lirias (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Community Development and Social Impact
- Keywords
- impact evaluation, assessment methods, program evaluation, development projects
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