The report describes the results of a three-year evaluation by LSE Housing and Communities of a family learning … families attending. The weekends used creative, low cost play activities to promote play-based learning. The evaluation used … activities and continuing to use them up to two years after attending the weekends. To the extent that the evaluation was able to …

informing the development of these policies. It is particularly concerned with issues arising in the quantitative evaluation of … the impact of policy, the major barriers to more effective evaluation and how these might be addressed in future. …

In this paper I provide a preliminary sketch of the types of logics of evaluation in the third sector. I begin by … tracing the ideals that are evident in three well-articulated yet quite different third sector evaluation practices: the … logical framework, most significant change stories, and social return on investment. Drawing on this analysis, I then …

This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in … investment or R&D. In identical specifications for British firms, cash flow is informative about investment, although not about … the level of R&D spending conditional on the R&D participation decision. In the UK, we also find that investment is less …

This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our … data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for … investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of …

This paper investigates the relationship between infation uncertainty and investment using a panel of loan-level data … investment. Moreover, there is a shift in the composition of investment away from fixed assets and towards working capital - the … more flexible factor of production - and fixed asset investment exhibits periods of inaction consistent with real option …

efficiency, as well as to lower prices of output goods relative to capital. We also show that properly accounting for the share …

investment. Uncertainty increases real option values making firms more cautious when investing or disinvesting. This is confirmed … both numerically for a model with a rich mix of adjustment costs, time-varying uncertainty, and aggregation over investment … investment response to demand shocks. This implies the responsiveness of firms to any given policy stimulus may be much lower in …

This article estimates the effect of visa restrictions on bilateral trade flows and foreign direct investment (FDI …