The purpose of this guideline is to discuss the objectives and approaches of regional (subnational) development programs in order to provide guidance on issues related to evaluating the impact of these programs. Regional development programs are designed to improve the income-generating capacity...

This note defines what spillover effects are, why it is important to measure them, and how to design a field experiment that will enable researchers to measure the average effects of the treatment in the presence of spillover effects on subjects both eligible and ineligible for the program. In...

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of research grants on the amount of collaboration, among scientific researchers in Argentina. We find a positive and significant impact of funding on collaboration, which is measured in terms of the number of co-authors for publications in peer-reviewed...

While the science of program evaluation has come a tremendous distance in the past couple of decades, measurement error remains a serious concern and its implications are often poorly understood by both data collectors and data analysts. The primary aim here is to offer a type of...

This volume provides an in-depth analysis of what is known about the effectiveness of projects aimed at fostering agricultural production and productivity and what has been done to improve the development effectiveness in this area. It then identifies where gaps lie in the existing evidence,...