Evaluation and the causal revolution

Content for Thursday, September 28, 2023

Readings

• The syllabus, schedule, content, and assignments pages for this class
• Chapter 1 in Running Randomized Evaluations (Glennerster and Takavarasha 2013)
• Chapter 1 in Impact Evaluation in Practice (Gertler et al. 2016)

Slides

On the day of class, you will find my slides on Canvas.

References

Gertler, Paul J., Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, and Christel M. J. Vermeersch. 2016. Impact Evaluation in Practice. 2nd ed. Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.

Glennerster, Rachel, and Kudzai Takavarasha. 2013. Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide. Princeton: Princeton University Press. http://runningres.com/.