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An introduction to the use of randomized control trials to evaluate development interventions, Howard White, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- Driven by the focus on results, impact evaluation has become a prominent part of the development agenda in the last decade. Much of the discussion of results has focused on outcome monitoring, such as the attention devoted to tracking the Millennium Development Goals. Whilst useful, outcome monitoring cannot tell us the impact of an intervention, and so cannot be used to make an assessment of the contribution an agency has made to development. But there has been growing use, notably amongst economists and political scientists, of a range of approaches which do directly tackle this question of what difference an intervention has made. Prominent amongst these approaches are experimental designs, or randomized control trials (RCTs). The purpose of this paper is to provide a short, non-technical introduction to RCTs. The paper deals briefly with what is meant by impact evaluation, before moving onto the problem of selection bias and how it can be dealt with through experimental and quasi-experimental designs. Practical concerns in designing and implementing a RCT are then discussed before moving on to some of the criticisms which are commonly made of this approach.--Introduction
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (18 pages)
- Note
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- Title from pdf title page (3ie, viewed August 16, 2011)
- "February 2011"
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- An introduction to the use of randomized control trials to evaluate development interventions
- Title
- An introduction to the use of randomized control trials to evaluate development interventions
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- Howard White
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- Use of randomized control trials to evaluate development interventions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Driven by the focus on results, impact evaluation has become a prominent part of the development agenda in the last decade. Much of the discussion of results has focused on outcome monitoring, such as the attention devoted to tracking the Millennium Development Goals. Whilst useful, outcome monitoring cannot tell us the impact of an intervention, and so cannot be used to make an assessment of the contribution an agency has made to development. But there has been growing use, notably amongst economists and political scientists, of a range of approaches which do directly tackle this question of what difference an intervention has made. Prominent amongst these approaches are experimental designs, or randomized control trials (RCTs). The purpose of this paper is to provide a short, non-technical introduction to RCTs. The paper deals briefly with what is meant by impact evaluation, before moving onto the problem of selection bias and how it can be dealt with through experimental and quasi-experimental designs. Practical concerns in designing and implementing a RCT are then discussed before moving on to some of the criticisms which are commonly made of this approach.--Introduction
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- White, Howard
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
- Series statement
- Working paper International Initiative for Impact Evaluation;
- Series volume
- 9
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- Evaluation Studies as Topic
- Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
- Developing Countries
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- An introduction to the use of randomized control trials to evaluate development interventions, Howard White, (electronic resource)
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- Title from pdf title page (3ie, viewed August 16, 2011)
- "February 2011"
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
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- txt
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- 711786823
- Extent
- 1 online resource (18 pages)
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- (OCoLC)711786823
- Label
- An introduction to the use of randomized control trials to evaluate development interventions, Howard White, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- Title from pdf title page (3ie, viewed August 16, 2011)
- "February 2011"
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 711786823
- Extent
- 1 online resource (18 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, color map
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)711786823
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