Resources

Standards

• EGAP research principles
• EGAP Project Registration Form (beta)
• EGAP Consort Style Form (beta)

Research Institutions and Centers

• 3IE (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation)
• Center for Global Development
• Center for the Study of Development Strategies
• IDEAS
• Ideas 42
• Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank
• International Food Policy Research Organization
• Innovations for Poverty Action
• Jameel Poverty Action Lab
• Mathematica Public Policy Research
• MDRC
• Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science

Research Initiatives

• Get Out the Vote
• The Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Initiative
• Rediscovering the Civic and Achieving Better Policy Outcomes in Public Policy
• USAID Office of Democracy and Governance: Performance Monitoring and Evaluation

General Sites and Useful Links

• World Bank Impact Evaluation Database
• Impact Evaluation: A Handbook for Practitioners

Readings on Experimental Methodology

Readings on Impact Evaluation

• Blattman, Chris. 2008. “Impact Evaluation 2.0.” Presentation to the Department for International Development (DFID).
• Bruhn, Miriam and David McKenzie. 2009. “In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4).
• Duflo, Esther and Rachel Glennester et. al. 2006. “Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit.”NBER Technical Working Paper 333.
• Duflo, Esther and Michael Kremer. “Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness.” Paper for the World Bank Operations Evaluation Department (OED), July 2003.
• Humphreys, Macartan and Jeremy M. Weinstein. 2009.  ”Field Experiments and the Political Economy of Development.” Annual Review of Political Science, 12: 367-378.
• Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research. The National Academies Press, 2008.
• Moehler, Devra C. 2010. “Democracy, Governance, and Randomized Development Assistance.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, (628)30:30-46.
• Oakley, Ann. 2000. “A Historical Perspective on the Use of Randomized Trials in Social Science Settings.” Crime and Delinquency 46(3):315-329.
• White, Howard. 2009. “Theory-Based Impact Evaluation: Principles and Practice.”Journal of Development Effectiveness, 1(3).