Additional Resources

CLEAR / J-PAL South Asia Resources

• Impact Evaluability Toolkit

Other Reading Resources

• Evaluation and Program Planning

IPA Goldilocks Resource

• Guiding your program to build a Theory of Change

Other Reading Resources

• The Power of Theories of Change - Stanford Social Innovation

• Useful Theory of Change Models

• Using Programme Theory to Evaluate Complicated and Complex Aspects of Interventions

• What is a Theory of Action

J-PAL Resources

• Introduction to measurement and indicators

Measuring Empowerment

• A Practical Guide to Measuring Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in Impact Evaluations

• Understanding the measurement of women’s autonomy: Illustrations from Bangladesh and Ghana

• EMERGE: How to Create Scientifically Valid Social and Behavioral Measures on Gender Equality and Empowerment

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository:

• Measuring Skills in Developing Countries

OECD:

• Measures of interpersonal trust: Evidence on their cross-national validity and reliability based on surveys and experimental data

Other Reading Resources

• Criterion Validity, Reliability and Attrition: Comparing Survey Self-Administration vs. Interviewer Administration in Honduras and Peru 

• Measuring early learning, quality and outcomes

J-PAL Resources

• Impact Evaluation Methods

IPA Goldilocks Resource

• Resources and tools for Impact Evaluations

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

• The mystery of vanishing benefits: An introduction of Impact Evaluations

OECD

• Outline of principles of Impact Evaluation

Other Reading Resources

• Impact Evaluation in practice

J-PAL Resources 

• Introduction to Randomised Evaluations

• Ethical conduct of Randomised Evaluations

• Real world challenges

Power & Sample Size

• Risks of underpowered RCTs

• Choosing a sample size 

• How to conduct power calculations 

• Six rules of thumb for determining sample size and statistical power 

Other Reading Resources

• • Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

  • Running randomised evaluations: A Practical Guide

• J-PAL Resources 

  • Institutional Review Board (IRB) proposals

  • Data Security

  • Designing an intake and informed consent process

  • Institutional Review Board (IRB) proposals

  • Ethical conduct of randomised evaluations

• Other Reading Resources

  • Are we over-investing in baselines?

  • The Belmont Report: fundamental ethical principles for research involving human subjects.

• J-PAL Resources 

  • Cost-Effectiveness and Welfare Analysis

  • Conducting cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)

  • J-PAL Costing Guidelines

  • J-PAL Costing Template

• Other Reading Resources

  • Common misconceptions in cost-effective analyses

• J-PAL Resources 

  • A practical framework for evidence-informed policy: Addressing the generalizability puzzle

  • Evidence to Policy

  • Adapting and scaling a program

  • Scaling up an evaluated pilot

• Other Reading Resources

  • Evidence on Mechanisms operating in Women’s groups

  • The Generalizability Puzzle

Policy Insights

Evidence to Policy

Evaluation Summaries

Research Resources

J-PAL Courses

MITx MicroMasters Program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy