Towards Appropriate Impact Evaluation Methods

The Impact of Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing on Treatment Evaluation Parameters

The therapeutic impact of inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics is debatable, particularly in situations where infections are treated empirically with multiply prescribed antibiotics. Prescribers may remain under the illusion that such prescriptions are appropriate on the basis of any observed positive treatment outcomes, even though an antibiotic prescribed in such combination therapy may a...

Towards Efficient Evaluation of Methods by Reduction

Basic Idea For DOOD, especially when using bottom-up evaluation, optimization is essential. However, for advanced languages like F-logic 2, 4] the general syntactical techniques well{known from Datalog are not suucient; e.g. due to the rich structure of the language (comprising multiple inheritance, variables on class or method position, and rule{deened class hierarchy) magic-set transformation...

Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Finance

Recent years have seen a large expansion in the use of rigorous impact evaluation techniques. Increasingly, public administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public finance. These developments allow for more reliable measurements of the effects of different policy options on the behavioral re...

Introduction to Mixed Methods in Impact Evaluation

Impact Evaluation Methods for Social Programs

Impact evaluation is an indispensable tool to assess whether a program is achieving its objective, how the beneficiaries’ situation changed as a result of the program and what the situation would have been without the program. Moreover, if an impact evaluation is carried out at an intermediate stage of project execution, very important lessons can be learned on how the program design and/or the...