Chris NewtonImpact Evaluation Officer job going in Dogs Trust’s research team if anyone UK-based might be interested. Fully remote, permanent, full-time, £34,850 per year.
https://careers.dogstrust.org.uk/en/postings/2cb694f6-a928-42af-9118-241563c73fac
Wilfred Mijnhardt2: "Failing to acknowledge when things go wrong misses opportunities for learning" - Important study on why research impact assessments must include failures alongside successes 🎯 #HigherEducation #ImpactEvaluation
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Decentered MediaHow can community media projects show their impact in ways funders and partners understand? What tools capture their social value beyond audience numbers? Join the conversation on developing a Community Media Evaluation Toolkit. #CommunityMedia #ImpactEvaluation
Martin HuberJust under a month left until my book #CausalAnalysis - #ImpactEvaluation and #CausalMachineLearning with Applications in R is released on Aug 1st by @mitpress: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545914/causal-analysis/
nataliaDoes anyone have any readings about evaluating the quality of matches when using a matching approach to causal inference (ideally k-nearest neighbor w/ Mahalonobis distance, not PSM)? How to double-check that your matching is at least somewhat adequately accounting for confounders that go along with self-selection into the treatment? #causalinference #impactevaluation #statistics
BONUS for some kind of placebo test - match a subset of the control pop. (a "pseudo-treatment") to other controls.
ISDC BerlinFor anyone that missed Ghassan's contribution to the #CEDIL23 Conference on 'Evaluations in humanitarian contexts: developing innovative and collaborative strategies', you can still watch the full session:
CEDIL conference February 23rd 2023: Evaluations in humanitarian contexts
We’re very excited to announce Ghassan (Director of our Welfare Research Program) will be speaking at this year’s CEDIL Conference!
Building on our FAO #ImpactEvaluation in #Syria, Ghassan will speak about how we developed unique approaches to account for the ongoing crisis in our study.
Register for ‘Evaluations in humanitarian contexts: developing innovative and collaborative strategies’ (24.02. 1pm CET) here:
Michael ClemensIf you are #teaching #economics to undergraduates, what is the best available *non-technical* summary of the different common methods of #ImpactEvaluation?
They are all quite intuitive at their core: randomization, differences-in-differences, policy discontinuity, matching… even instrumental variables.
What concise document explains how they work, using diagrams instead of math?
Our training on how to conduct impact evaluations in conflict settings will now take place on 14 / 15 / 16 March!
If you have already registered, your registration is still valid. If not, check out all the details at http://bit.ly/RIE-Training 👈
Conducting Rigorous Impact Evaluations in Humanitarian Emergencies and Conflict Settings: A Research-to-Practice Training Workshop | ISDC
Many consider Rigorous Impact Evaluations (RIEs) to be the gold standard in evaluating interventions. We agree. However, various methodological, ethical, and practical challenges to conducting RIEs in Humanitarian Emergencies and Conflict Settings (HECS) have raised questions about how well traditional RIE methods are well-suited to such settings. ISDC – International Security and Development Center has […]
diogoverissimoA really interesting example of a trope that is widely acknowledged to be true largely because of how much it has been repeated, despite the lack of any empirical evidence for it. Why do we treat these issues with a lot rigour than we do elephant counting or rainforest mapping?
