Chapter 3
Module 3.1
This chapter is about how to decide when to perform a randomized evaluation, which programs or issues should be given priority for testing using this methodology, and which questions can be answered using other methodologies.
PAPERS
Menstruation, Sanitary Products, and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
A study evaluating claims that menstruation is a barrier to girls’ participation in school.
Determinants of Technology Adoption: Private Value and Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up
Summary: The role of peer effects on randomized distribution of menstrual cups in Nepal.
Menstruation as a Barrier to Education?
J-PAL’s policy briefcase of the Nepal study.
Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries
This study is an example of how a descriptive survey can highlight major challenges with implementation.
Conditional Cash Transfers and HIV/
AIDS Prevention: Unconditionally Promising?
Market Inefficiencies and the Adoption of Agricultural Technologies in Developing Countries
External Validity and Partner Selection Bias
Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan
Putting a Band-Aid on a Corpse: Incentives for Nurses in the Indian Public Health Care System
LITERATURE REVIEWS
Development Impact Evaluation Initiative
Innovations for Poverty Action – Proven Impact Initiative
Innovations for Poverty Action -- Ultra Poor Graduation Pilots
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Cochrane Collaborative Reviews
Cochrane Reviews are systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy, and are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based health care.
LECTURE NOTES