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Evaluation of Development Programs: Using Regressions to assess the Impact of Complex Interventions
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257228
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Evaluation of Development Policy: Treatment versus Program Effects
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257610
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Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256677
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Insurance and Rural Welfare: What can Panel Data tell us?
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Pan, Lei - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under risk. One of the few empirical … would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we investigate how models such as theirs … conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256689