Download or read book Programme Evaluation and Treatment Choice written by Markus Frölich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy evaluation and programme choice are important tools for informed decision-making, for the administration of active labour market programmes, training programmes, tuition subsidies, rehabilitation programmes etc. Whereas the evaluation of programmes and policies is mainly concerned with an overall assessment of impact, benefits and costs, programme choice considers an optimal allocation of individuals to the programmes. This book surveys potential evaluation strategies for policies with multiple programmes and discusses evaluation and treatment choice in a coherent framework. Recommendations for choosing appropriate evaluation estimators are derived. Furthermore, a semiparametric estimator of optimal treatment choice is developed to assist in the optimal allocation of participants.
Download or read book Thinking about Program Evaluation written by Richard A. Berk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of specific examples to illustrate evaluation research goals and methods, this book provides readers with an overview of the science and politics of evaluation research. The Second Edition includes coverage of meta-analysis, selection models and instrumental variables.
Download or read book Program Evaluation as a Decision Problem written by Rajeev Harsha Dehejia and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I argue for thinking of program evaluation as a decision problem. In the context of California's GAIN experiment (a randomized trial of a welfare-to-work alternative to AFDC), I show that GAIN first-order stochastically dominates AFDC when considering the choice between the treatment and control programs in terms of average earnings, even though the treatment effect is not statistically significant. I also argue for incorporating the post-evaluation assignment mechanism for the program under consideration into the evaluation process. I show that if policies, such as allowing a career counselor to choose which program individuals join, are included in the evaluation, then GAIN is superior to AFDC whereas the opposite ranking emerges from the standard treatment versus control comparison which ignores potential heterogeneity in the treatment impact
Download or read book Practical Program Evaluation written by Huey-tsyh Chen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrates on the steps vital to program evaluation, including systematically identifying stakeholder needs, selecting evaluation options best suited to particular needs, and turning decisions into action.
Download or read book Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation written by Kathryn E. Newcomer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading program evaluation reference, updated with the latest tools and techniques The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation provides tools for managers and evaluators to address questions about the performance of public and nonprofit programs. Neatly integrating authoritative, high-level information with practicality and readability, this guide gives you the tools and processes you need to analyze your program's operations and outcomes more accurately. This new fourth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised, with new coverage of the latest evaluation methods, including: Culturally responsive evaluation Adopting designs and tools to evaluate multi-service community change programs Using role playing to collect data Using cognitive interviewing to pre-test surveys Coding qualitative data You'll discover robust analysis methods that produce a more accurate picture of program results, and learn how to trace causality back to the source to see how much of the outcome can be directly attributed to the program. Written by award-winning experts at the top of the field, this book also contains contributions from the leading evaluation authorities among academics and practitioners to provide the most comprehensive, up-to-date reference on the topic. Valid and reliable data constitute the bedrock of accurate analysis, and since funding relies more heavily on program analysis than ever before, you cannot afford to rely on weak or outdated methods. This book gives you expert insight and leading edge tools that help you paint a more accurate picture of your program's processes and results, including: Obtaining valid, reliable, and credible performance data Engaging and working with stakeholders to design valuable evaluations and performance monitoring systems Assessing program outcomes and tracing desired outcomes to program activities Providing robust analyses of both quantitative and qualitative data Governmental bodies, foundations, individual donors, and other funding bodies are increasingly demanding information on the use of program funds and program results. The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation shows you how to collect and present valid and reliable data about programs.
Download or read book Foundations of Program Evaluation written by William R. Shadish and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Program Evaluationheralds a thorough exploration of the field of program evaluation--looking back on its origins. By summarizing, comparing, and contrasting the work of seven major theorists of program evaluation, this book provides an important perspective on the current state of evaluation theory and provides suggestions for ways of improving its practice. Beginning in Chapter Two, the authors develop a conceptual framework to analyze how successfully each theory meets the specific criteria of its framework. Each subsequent chapter is devoted to the presentation of the theoretical and practical advice of a significant theorist--Michael Scriven, Donald Campbell, Carol Weiss, Joseph Wholey, Robert Stake, Lee Cronbach, and Peter Rossi.
Download or read book Health Program Planning and Evaluation A Practical Systematic Approach for Community Health written by L. Michele Issel and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of Health Program Planning and Evaluation will help you to systematically develop, thoughtfully implement, and rigorously evaluate health programs across a variety of health disciplines. This thorough revision includes updated examples and references throughout, reflecting the major changes within the field. This outstanding resource prepares students and professionals to become savvy consumers of evaluation reports and prudent users of evaluation consultants. It presents practical tools and concepts in language suitable for both the practicing and novice health program planner and evaluator.
Download or read book Program Evaluation written by Lee Sechrest and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together, chapters Two and Three show how advantage increases if pluralism is planned and deliberate, whether at the stage of formulating problems and conducting research or at the stage of synthesizing and interpreting the findings of multiple studies. No single study is likely to yield findings that we should consider definitive. The same can probably be said of program evaluations. Certainly no single study can teach us much of what we need to know. Chapter Two, on critical multiplism, describes an overall strategy for the conduct of research. This strategy is applicable to the aggregate efforts of a set of researchers working on problems in common, but it also has implications for the planning of individual research.
Download or read book Health Program Evaluation written by Stephen Michael Shortell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating AIDS Prevention Programs written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insightful discussion of program evaluation and the efforts of the Centers for Disease Control, this book presents a set of clear-cut recommendations to help ensure that the substantial resources devoted to the fight against AIDS will be used most effectively. This expanded edition of Evaluating AIDS Prevention Programs covers evaluation strategies and outcome measurements, including a realistic review of the factors that make evaluation of AIDS programs particularly difficult. Randomized field experiments are examined, focusing on the use of alternative treatments rather than placebo controls. The book also reviews nonexperimental techniques, including a critical examination of evaluation methods that are observational rather than experimentalâ€"a necessity when randomized experiments are infeasible.
Download or read book Partial Identification of Average Treatment Effects in Program Evaluation written by Xuan Chen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a recent increase on research focusing on partial identification of average treatment effects in the program evaluation literature. In contrast with traditional point identification, partial identification approaches derive bounds on parameters of interest based on relatively weak assumptions. Thus, they deliver more credible results in empirical applications. This dissertation extends Instrumental Variable (IV) methods in the program evaluation literature by partially identifying treatment effects of interest when evaluating a program or intervention. An influential approach for studying causality within the IV framework was developed by Imbens and Angrist (1994) and Angrist, Imbens and Rubin (1996). They show that, when allowing for heterogeneous effects, IV estimators point identify the local average treatment effect (LATE) for compliers, whose treatment status is affected by the instrument. This dissertation advances the current IV literature in two important ways. First, inspired by the common criticism that LATE lacks external validity, this dissertation derives sharp nonparametric bounds for population average treatment effects (ATE) within the LATE framework. Second, the dissertation extends the LATE framework to bound treatment effects in the presence of both sample selection and noncompliance. Even when employing randomized experiments to evaluate programs -- as is now common in economics and other social science fields -- assessing the impact of the treatment on outcomes of interest is often made difficult by those two critical identification problems. The sample selection issue arises when outcomes of interest are only observed for a selected group. The noncompliance problem appears because some treatment group individuals do not receive the treatment while some control individuals do. The dissertation addresses both of these identification problems simultaneously and derives nonparametric bounds for average treatment effects within a principal stratification framework. More generally, these bounds can be employed in settings where two identification problems are present and there is a valid instrument to address one of them. The bounds derived in this dissertation are based on two sets of relatively weak assumptions: monotonicity assumptions on potential outcomes within specified subpopulations, and mean dominance assumptions across subpopulations. The dissertation employs the derived bounds to evaluate the effectiveness of the Job Corps (JC) program, which is the largest federally-funded job training program for disadvantaged youth in the United States, with the focus on labor market outcomes and welfare dependence. The dissertation uses data from an experimental evaluation of JC. Individuals were randomly assigned to a treatment group (whose members were allowed to enroll in JC) or to a control group (whose members were denied access to JC for three years). However, there was noncompliance: some individuals who were assigned to participate in JC did not enroll, while some individuals assigned to the control group did. The dissertation addresses this noncompliance issue using random assignment as an IV for enrollment into JC. Concentrating on the population ATE, JC enrollment increases weekly earnings by at least $24.61 and employment by at least 4.3 percentage points four years after randomization, and decreases yearly dependence on public welfare benefits by at least $84.29. These bounds are significantly narrower than the ones derived in the current IV literature. The dissertation also evaluates the effect of JC on wages, which are observed only for those who are employed. Hence, the sample selection issue has to be addressed when evaluating this effect. In the presence of sample selection and noncompliance, the average treatment effect of JC enrollment on wages for the always-employed compliers, who would comply with their assigned treatment and who would be always employed regardless of their assignment statuses, is bounded between 5.7 percent and 13.9 percent four years after random assignment. The results suggest greater positive average effects of JC on wages than those found in the literature evaluating JC without adjusting for noncompliance. The dissertation closes by pointing out that a similar analytic strategy to the one used in this dissertation can be used to address other problems, for example, to bound the ATE when the instrument does not satisfy the exclusion restriction, and to derive bounds on the part of the effect of a treatment on an outcome that works through a given mechanism (i.e., direct or net effects) in the presence of one identification issue (e.g., noncompliance).
Download or read book Public Program Evaluation written by Laura Langbein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Download or read book The Practice of Health Program Evaluation written by David Grembowski and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the latest developments in the field, The Practice of Health Program Evaluation, Second Edition provides readers with effective methods for evaluating health programs, policies, and health care systems, offering expert guidance for collaborating with stakeholders involved in the process. Author David Grembowski explores evaluation as a three-act play: Act I shows evaluators how to work with decision makers and other groups to identify the questions they want answered; Act II covers selecting appropriate evaluation designs and methods to answer the questions and reveal insights about the program’s impacts, cost-effectiveness, and implementation; and Act III discusses making use of the findings. Packed with relevant examples and detailed explanations, the book offers a step-by-step approach that fully prepares readers to apply research methods in the practice of health program evaluation.
Download or read book Thinking About Program Evaluation written by Richard A. Berk and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of specific examples to illustrate evaluation research goals and methods, Thinking About Program Evaluation provides readers with an overview of the science and politics of evaluation research. New to this edition is coverage of meta-analysis, selection models, and instrumental variables. In addition, the authors have expanded the coverage of: analysis of data, evaluation when the units of analysis are entire organizations of political jurisdictions, and comparisons between evaluation research and other related fields. The rich mix of examples has been expanded to include more illustrations from environmental evaluation, and, the most recent studies on welfare reform, managed mental health care, and law enforcem
Download or read book Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation written by Jean-Michel Josselin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a self-contained presentation of the statistical tools required for evaluating public programs, as advocated by many governments, the World Bank, the European Union, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. After introducing the methodological framework of program evaluation, the first chapters are devoted to the collection, elementary description and multivariate analysis of data as well as the estimation of welfare changes. The book then successively presents the tools of ex-ante methods (financial analysis, budget planning, cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness and multi-criteria evaluation) and ex-post methods (benchmarking, experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation). The step-by-step approach and the systematic use of numerical illustrations equip readers to handle the statistics of program evaluation. It not only offers practitioners from public administrations, consultancy firms and nongovernmental organizations the basic tools and advanced techniques used in program assessment, it is also suitable for executive management training, upper undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as for self-study.
Download or read book Weighing the Options written by Paul R. Thomas and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents criteria for evaluating treatment programs for obesity and explores what these criteria mean--to health care providers, program designers, researchers, and even overweight people seeking help. Discusses information necessary to make wise program choices and evaluations; examines how client demographics and characteristics--including health status, knowledge of weight-loss issues, and attitude toward weight and body image--affect these programs.
Download or read book Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments written by Markus Frölich and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
