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Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices - Exercises 2009

Bangladesh, 2009
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BGD_2009_HIEQMP_v01_M
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https://doi.org/10.48529/yss8-m484
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S. Khandker, G. Koolwal and H. Samad
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Stata program dd
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Author(s) S. Khandker, G. Koolwal and H. Samad (World Bank)
Date 2009-01-01
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Stata program iv
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Date 2009-01-01
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Stata program psm
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Stata program random
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Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices
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Author(s) Shahidur Khandker , Gayatri B. Koolwal , Hussain Samad (World Bank)
Date 2009-10-01
Country World
Table of contents PART 1. METHODS AND PRACTICES

1. Introduction

2. Basic Issues of Evaluation
Summary • Learning Objectives • Introduction: Monitoring versus Evaluation • Monitoring • Setting Up Indicators within an M&E Framework • Operational Evaluation • Quantitative versus Quantitative Impact Assessments • Quantitative Impact Assessment: Ex Post versus Ex Ante Impact Evaluations • The Problem of the Counterfactual • Basic Theory of Impact Evaluation: The Problem of Selection Bias • Different Evaluation Approaches to Ex Post Impact Evaluation • Overview: Designing and Implementing Impact Evaluations • Questions

3. Randomization
Summary • Learning Objectives • Setting the Counterfactual • Statistical Design of Randomization • Calculating Treatment Effects • Randomization in Evaluation Design: Different Methods of Randomization • Concerns with Randomization • Randomized Impact Evaluation in Practice • Difficulties with Randomization • Questions

4. Propensity Score Matching
Summary • Learning Objectives • PSM and Its Practical Uses • What Does PSM Do? • PSM Method in Theory • Application of the PSM Method • Critiquing the PSM Method • PSM and Regression-Based Methods • Questions

5. Double Difference
Summary • Learning Objectives • Addressing Selection Bias from a Different Perspective: Using Differences as Counterfactual • DD Method: Theory and Application • Advantages and Disadvantages of Using DD • Alternative DD Models • Questions

6. Instrumental Variable Estimation
Summary • Learning Objectives • Introduction • Two-Stage Least Squares Approach to IVs • Concerns with IVs • Sources of IVs • Question

7. Regression Discontinuity and Pipeline Methods
Summary • Learning Objectives • Introduction • Regression Discontinuity in Theory • Advantages and Disadvantages of the RD Approach • Pipeline Comparisons • Questions

8. Measuring Distributional Program Effects
Summary • Learning Objectives • The Need to Examine Distributional Impacts of Programs • Examining Heterogeneous Program Impacts: Linear Regression Framework • Quantile Regression Approaches • Discussion: Data Collection Issues

9. Using Economic Models to Evaluate Policies
Summary • Learning Objectives • Introduction • Structural versus Reduced-Form Approaches • Modeling the Effects of Policies • Assessing the Effect of Policies in a Macroeconomic Framework • Modeling Household Behavior in the Case of a Single Treatment: Case Studies on School Subsidy Programs • Conclusions

10. Conclusions

PART 2. STATA EXERCISES

11. Introduction to Stata
Data Sets Used for Stata Exercise • Beginning Exercise: Introduction to Stata • Working with Data Files: Looking at the Content • Changing Data Sets • Combining Data Sets • Working with .log and .do Files

12. Randomized Impact Evaluation
Impacts of Program Placement in Villages • Impacts of Program Participation • Capturing Both Program Placement and Participation • Impacts of Program Participation in Program Villages • Measuring Spillover Effects of Microcredit Program Placement • Further Exercises

13. Propensity Score Matching Technique
Propensity Score Equation: Satisfying the Balancing Property • Average Treatment Effect Using Nearest-Neighbor Matching • Average Treatment Effect Using Stratification Matching • Average Treatment Effect Using Radius Matching • Average Treatment Effect Using Kernel Matching • Checking Robustness of Average Treatment Effect • Further Exercises

14. Double-Difference Method
Simplest Implementation: Simple Comparison Using "ttest" • Regression Implementation • Checking Robustness of DD with Fixed-Effects Regression • Applying the DD Method in Cross-Sectional Data • Taking into Account Initial Conditions • The DD Method Combined with Propensity Score Matching

15. Instrumental Variable Method
IV Implementation Using "ivreg" Command • Testing for Endogeneity: OLS versus IV • IV Method for Binary Treatment: "treatreg" Command • IV with Fixed Effects: Cross-Sectional Estimates • IV with Fixed Effects: Panel Estimates

16. Regression Discontinuity Design
Impact Estimation Using RD • Implementation of Sharp Discontinuity • Implementation of Fuzzy Discontinuity • Exercise
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