Choosing and planning ethical evaluations
Content for Monday, November 14, 2022
Readings
- “Generating random numbers”
- “The ultimate guide to generating synthetic data for causal inference”
- Paul Hünermund and Beyers Louw, “On the Nuisance of Control Variables in Regression Analysis” (Hünermund and Louw 2020) (click on the PDF link in the right sidebar)
- “Types of Evaluation,” National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- Chapters 11–13 in Impact Evaluation in Practice (Gertler et al. 2016)
- Chapter 15 in The Effect (Huntington-Klein 2021) (skim this)
Slides
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Tip
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Videos
Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.
You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:
In-class stuff
Here are all the materials we’ll use in class:
References
Gertler, Paul J., Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, and Christel M. J. Vermeersch. 2016. Impact Evaluation in Practice. 2nd ed. Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.
Hünermund, Paul, and Beyers Louw. 2020. “On the Nuisance of Control Variables in Regression Analysis,” October. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10314.
Huntington-Klein, Nick. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman and Hall / CRC. https://theeffectbook.net/.