Ongoing empirical research on the drivers of project-aid effectiveness relies on World Bank evaluation ratings across … World Bank evaluation ratings are measuring precisely. Second, only project management variables, which are sector …. Moreover, we are able to analyze the impact of project design in addition to project management. We find that evaluation …

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …

In 2006 the Center for Global Development's report 'When Will We Ever Learn? Improving lives through impact evaluation …

By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is …

This paper reviews a range of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social … drawing on the empirical evidence from the education and labor market policy evaluation literature. We also develop an … education evaluation model which we use to carry through the discussion of each alternative approach. A full set of STATA …

This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments … evaluation literature. A workhorse simulation model of education returns is used throughout the paper to discuss and illustrate … estimation and simulation results. -- Evaluation methods …