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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

A checklist for the reporting of randomized control trials of social and economic policy interventions in developing countries

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2010  

Ron Bose augments the consolidated standards of reporting trials checklist, developed to provide information on controlled medical trials, by adapting it to development interventions.

Impact evaluation in the post-disaster setting

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2009  

Alison Buttenheim synthesises the guiding principles and analytic frameworks for post-disaster impact evaluation, and applies it to a design for the evaluation of relief and recovery programmes fol

Theory-based impact evaluation: principles and practice

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2009  

Calls for rigorous impact evaluation has been accompanied by the quest for what works and why.

Better evidence for a better world

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2009  

Edited by Mark Lipsey and Eamonn Noonan, this paper argues that better evidence drawn from high quality primary research needs to be synthesized in a way that shows not only what works, but why and

Some reflections on current debates in impact evaluation

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2009  

Howard White reflects on the impact evaluation debates. Impact evaluation has been defined in various ways. One refers to outcome and long-term effects. The other is about attribution.

Validating one of the world’s largest conditional cash transfer programmes

Working paper 3ie PDF icon 2012  

A case study on how an impact evaluation of Brazil’s Bolsa Família Programme helped silence its critics and improve policy

Interventions to Reduce the Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in African Countries

Systematic review 3ie PDF icon 2013  
Rigmor C Berg and Eva Denison review studies that use randomized control trials and qualitative designs to analyse the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation.

The impact of export processing zones on employment, wages and labour conditions in developing countries

Systematic review 3ie PDF icon 2014  

Export processing zones (EPZs), also called free-trade zones, are one of the most common instruments of industrial policy in developed and developing countries.

Impact evaluation of the non-contributory social pension programme 70 y más in Mexico

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2014  

While elderly populations in many developing countries, particularly in Latin America, have been growing rapidly, the social security coverage for this segment remains low.

The impact of daycare on maternal labour supply and child development in Mexico

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2014  

This study by Gustavo Angeles, Paola Gadsden, Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler, Andrea Herrera, Patricia Kariger and Enrique Seira evaluates the impact of a daycare programme, Programa de estancias