Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2011
This five-day program on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one's own evaluation. While the course focuses on randomized evaluations, many of the topics, such as measuring outcomes and dealing with threats to the validity of an evaluation, are relevant for other methodologies.J-PAL's goal is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence. Every day, evidence ge...