Hello, again! It’s Steve Bell here, that evaluator with Abt Associates who is eager to share some insights regarding the learning potential of social experiments. In a week-long blog series, we are examining concerns about social experiments to offer tips for how to avoid common pitfalls and to support the extension of this powerful research …
Hello AEA365 readers! I am Laura Peck, founder and co-chair of the AEA’s recently-established (and growing) Design & Analysis of Experiments TIG. I work at Abt Associates as an evaluator in the Social & Economic Policy Division and director of Abt’s Research & Evaluation Expertise Center. Today’s AEA365 blogpost recaps what experimental evaluations typically tell …
Greetings, and welcome to a week’s worth of insights sponsored by the Design and Analysis of Experiments TIG! We are Laura Peck and Steve Bell, program evaluators with Abt Associates. When deciding how to invest in social programs, policymakers and program managers increasingly ask for evidence of effectiveness. A strong method for measuring a program’s …
We are both AEA Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Fellows this year with specialization in two related disciplines. The first author, Cirecie West-Olatunji is a counselor educator at Xavier University of Louisiana and Chandra Story is a faculty member in Health Education and Promotion/Pubic Health at Oklahoma State University. As we conclude our year long fellowship …
Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays loyal AEA365 readers! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a few tips and tools for bloggers, and a quick update to our contribution guidelines. Evaluation and blogging go together like apple pie and ice cream – each great on its own, but together? Fabulous! Many …
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Hi again, it’s Laura Peck here, that evaluator from Abt Associates. To close out the Design & Analysis of Experiments TIG’s first week of contributions to the AEA365 blog, I focus on one of the main critiques of experimental evaluations, that known as the “black box” criticism. Experimentally-designed evaluations can isolate the impact of an …
Keith Zvoch here. I am an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. In this post, I would like to discuss regression discontinuity (RD) and interrupted time series (ITS) designs, two strong and practical alternatives to the randomized control trial (RCT). Cool Trick: Take Advantage of Naturally Occurring Design Contexts Evaluators are often charged with …
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Hello! I’m William Faulkner, Director of Flux, an M&E consultancy based in New Orleans. I want to pull back the curtain on perhaps the most famous experiment in international development history – the one conducted by Washington DC’s IFPRI on Mexico’s largest anti-poverty program, PROGRESA (now Prospera). The Down-Low: Basically, the mainstream narrative of this …
I’m Allan Porowski, a Principal Associate at Abt Associates and a fan of experiments – when they’re conducted under the right circumstances. Experiments, commonly referred to as RCTs (randomized controlled trials) go through three stages: (1) crazy start-up period, (2) normal data collection period, and (3) crazy analysis period. Hot Tips: Here are some tips …
Dena Lomofsky, managing member of Southern Hemisphere and Vanesa Weyrauch, co-founder of Politics & Ideas work together to deliver specialist online courses on MEL for think tanks, in the field of policy influence. There are many exciting ways of doing MEL for think tanks, which we would love to share with you. The complexity of …
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