Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation

Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation

Methods and Applications to Economic Policy, Public Health, and Education

Le Maux, Benoit; Josselin, Jean-Michel

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

531

Mole

Inglês

9783319849966

15 a 20 dias

825

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Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation: introduction and overview.- Part I: Identifying the context of the program. Description of problems and needs, assessment of relationships among variables.- Sampling and construction of variables.- Descriptive statistics and interval estimation.- Measuring and visualizing associations.- Econometric analysis.- Estimation of welfare changes.- Part II: Ex ante evaluation. Assessment of different policy strategies that might solve the problems.- Financial appraisal.- Budget impact analysis.- Cost benefit analysis.- Cost effectiveness analysis.- Multi-criteria decision analysis.- Part III: Ex post evaluation. Assessment of the effects of a strategy after its implementation.- Follow-up by benchmarking.- Randomized controlled experiments.- Quasi-experiments.
Public projects;Public policy;Education;Evaluation tools;Statistical tools;Project analysis;Policy analysis;Public administration;Public health;Public economics;Project evaluation;Policy evaluation