Assessing Budget Support with Statistical Impact Evaluation: a Methodological Proposal

Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning () and Kobus de Hoop ()
Additional contact information
Kobus de Hoop: VU University Amsterdam

No 07-075/2, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Impact Evaluation; Sector-Wide Programs; Aid Effectiveness; Education; Africa; Zambia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 H43 N37 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-ecm and nep-ppm
Date: 2007-09-24, Revised 2007-12-31
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.tinbergen.nl/discussionpapers/07075.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:dgr:uvatin:20070075

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute
Series data maintained by Walther Schoonenberg ().