Impact Evaluation Design

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Learning goals

The recipient of this badge has demonstrated its ability to:

• Recognize different methodologies for designing impact evaluations
• Judge the most appropriate methodologies for designing impact evaluations according to the context
• Design impact evaluations for development promotion operations
• Design an implementation plan for an impact evaluation

Level

Intermediate

Learning experience and activities 

Live sessions with resources such as:

• Text and multimedia presentations with information about the impact evaluation methodology
• Practical exercises for knowledge validation
• Teamwork to develop an impact evaluation of a project

Content / Topics

1. Importance of impact evaluations
2. Theory of change
3. Questions of interest and potential outcomes
4. Experimental evaluations
5. Selection on observables (matching, propensity score, etc.)
6. Evaluation questions, indicators, and data
7. Difference-in-differences estimations
8. Synthetic control and SDID
9. Identification strategy
10. Instrumental variables
11. Regression discontinuity
12. Additional topics and summary
13. Step-by-step design of an impact evaluation

Assessment

To participate in the workshop, the recipient of this badge went through a selection process that required an initial proposal for the design of an impact evaluation for a real project. At the end of the workshop, participants developed a new impact evaluation design proposal in groups, which received feedback from specialists.

Estimated effort

The recipient of this digital badge has participated in 30 hours of live training sessions, distributed over five days of workshop.

Badge type

Completion badge