Assessing Budget Support with Statistical Impact Evaluation: a Methodological Proposal

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Donor agencies and recipient governments want to assess the effectiveness of aid-supported sector policies. Unfortunately, existing methods for impact evaluation are designed for the evaluation of homogeneous interventions (‘projects’) where those with and without ‘treatment’ can be compared. The lack of a methodology for evaluations of sector-wide programs is a serious constraint in the debate on aid effectiveness. We propose a method of statistical impact evaluation in situations with heterogeneous interventions, an extension of the double differencing method often used in project evaluations. We illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 07-075/2

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Foreign Aid ; Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Africa; Oceania ; Economic Development: General
• Subject: Impact Evaluation ; Sector-Wide Programs ; Aid Effectiveness ; Education ; Africa ; Zambia ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Statistischer Test ; Theorie ; Bildungswesen ; Sambia

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Elbers, Chris ; Gunning, Jan Willem ; de Hoop, Kobus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Tinbergen Institute
• (where): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/86624
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET