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Publication

As part of our mandate as a knowledge producer and translator for our main audiences, we maintain a range of free online publication series: briefs, impact evaluation reports, systematic review technical and summary reports, replication papers, evidence gap map reports, scoping, and working papers.

Latest publications

Latest publications

Targeting the poor: evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2014  

Developing country governments often lack verifiable household income information to identify beneficiaries for social programmes.

Providing collateral and improving product market access for smallholder farmers: a randomised evaluation of inventory credit in Sierra Leone

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2015  

Inventory credit can be an important instrument in helping farmers benefit from large inter-seasonal volatility of agricultural prices.

Scaling up male circumcision service provision: results from a randomised evaluation in Malawi

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2014  

This study by Rebecca Thornton, Susan Godlonton, Jobiba Chinkhumba and Rachael Pierotti presents results from a randomised evaluation of how price and information affect the take-up of voluntary me

Can we obtain the required rigour without randomisation?

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2011  

Karl Hughes and Claire Hutchings describe problems development organizations face in moving beyond outcome measurement.

A can of worms? Implications of rigorous impact evaluations for development agencies

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2011  

Eric Roetman highlights the practical and ethical dilemmas of conducting impact evaluations.

Sound expectations: from impact evaluations to policy change

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2011  

Vanesa Weyrauch and Gala Diaz Langou develop a conceptual framework to identify factors that help or hinder impact evaluation and analyze how they influence policy.

An introduction to the use of randomized control trials to evaluate development interventions

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2013  

Economists and political scientists adopt a range of approaches to evaluate interventions. Prominent among these is the Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) method.

Conducting influential impact evaluations in China: The experience of the Rural Education Action Project

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2011  

Mathew Boswell, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang, Chengfang Liu, Renfu Luo and Yaojiang Shi describe strategies that Rural Education Action Project (REAP) has employed to maximize the e

Institutionalisation of government evaluation: balancing trade-offs

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2010  

Marie Gaarder and Bertha Briceño underline the importance of carefully designed impact evaluation to enhance welfare and developmental effectiveness. 

Impact evaluation and interventions to address climate change: a scoping study

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2010  

Martin Prowse and Birte Snilstveit argues that to support the effective allocation of substantial climate funds, the selection and design of climate change interventions should be based on evidence