TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buddelmeyer,Hielke
AU  - Skoufias,Emmanuel jt .author
ED  - World Bank.
TI  - An evaluation of the performance of regression discontinuity design on PROGRESA
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Washington,D. C
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Economic assistance, Domestic
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Poverty
N1  - Also available online; "While providing the most reliable method of evaluating social programs, randomized experiments in industrial and developing Countries alike are accompanied by political risks and ethical issues that jeopardize the chances of adopting them.  Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purpose of evaluating the impact of the PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the regression discontinuity design (RDD).  Using as a benchmark the impact estimates based on the experimental nature of the sample, the authors examine how estimates differ when the RDD is used as the estimator for evaluating program impact on two key indicators-child school attendance and child work.  Overall the performance of the RDD was remarkable good.  The RDD estimates of program impact agreed with the experimental estima; Includes bibliographical references; Open access
ER  -