The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in collaboration with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation just published a rigorous assessment - based on an randomized control design- that tries answer the question: Do policy briefs affect readers’ beliefs? The answers turn out to be not that … [Read more...] about Do policy briefs work?
Cable cars, reading glasses for kids, and other random Monday links
The must read for this week: the 2013 World Bank Development Report on jobs is out today. What will OXFAM say?. Unexpected partners in crime: A randomized experiment just published in the American Journal of Epidemiology shows (gated) that the introduction of Metrocable in Medellin- a new cable-propelled transit system - show that interventions in neighborhood physical … [Read more...] about Cable cars, reading glasses for kids, and other random Monday links
A must, must read
James Heckman just published a must, must read on the critical importance of early childhood development. This is the first sentence. The accident of birth is a principal source of inequality in America today. And this is the last paragraph … [Read more...] about A must, must read
Random Monday links
Financing the family: Remittances to Central America in a time of crisis. On theories of change: Many randomized control trials in international development fail to pay adequate attention to collecting data around the intervention’s theory of change. And so the authors resort to non-evidence based speculation to explain their findings. But without such explanation the … [Read more...] about Random Monday links
Random Monday links
If you are interested in water and sanitation issues, you should check out our publications. Did you know that Mexicans consume almost 5 times as much bottled water as Americans do, per person? Small is beautiful? A recent evaluation of a major UK government funded Community Driven Reconstruction Program in the Democratic Republic of Congo had the biggest sample ever: 1.8 … [Read more...] about Random Monday links