Standards
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
Readings on Experimental Methodology
- 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. Â ”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).
