Counterfactual thinking and impact evaluation in environmental policy

PJ Ferraro - New directions for evaluation, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… world can be inferred only indirectly through evaluation designs that … counterfactual outcomes
is quixotic. This chapter argues that elucidating causal relationships through counterfactual

Counterfactual impact evaluation of enterprise support programmes. evidence from a decade of subsidies to Italian firm

F Biagi, D Bondonio, A Martini - 2015 - econstor.eu
… The purpose of this paper is to offer empirical evidence on the impact generated by … databases)
that are typically available for counterfactual impact evaluations of firm-level intervention. …

Counterfactual Impact Evaluation on EU Cohesion Policy Interventions in Training in Companies 1

O Potluka, J Bruha, M Spacek, L Vrbová - Ekonomicky casopis, 2016 - ceeol.com
… on the application of the counterfactual impact evaluations (hereinafter as CIE). … counterfactual
impact evaluation approach, which has been a rarely used method to evaluate impact

A note on the impact evaluation of public policies: the counterfactual analysis

M Loi, M Rodrigues - 2012 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
… In this report we describe the policy evaluation framework and the different counterfactual
analysis evaluation strategies: propensity score matching, regression discontinuity design, …

[PDF][PDF] Counterfactual impact evaluation of the project internships for young job seekers

V Kopečná - Central European Journal of Public Policy, 2016 - sciendo.com
… In this paper, we consider the counterfactual impact evaluation (CIE) to be sufficient evidence
due to the fact that it shows causal effects of implemented measures on treated individuals. …

[HTML][HTML] A counterfactual impact evaluation of a bilingual program on students' grade point average at a Spanish university

JL Arco-Tirado, F Fernández-Martín… - Evaluation and Program …, 2018 - Elsevier
… as the counterfactual result. In reality we do not and cannot observe counterfactuals results
for … What is done instead by using the matching approach is to estimate counterfactual results …

Ex-post impact evaluation of improved sorghum varieties on poverty reduction in Kenya: A counterfactual analysis

B Mwangi, I Macharia, E Bett - Social Indicators Research, 2021 - Springer
This paper uses data collected from 452 sampled households to estimate the impact of
improved sorghum varieties (ISVs) on poverty reduction in Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. …

[图书][B] The evaluation of the youth employment initiative in Portugal using counterfactual impact evaluation methods

N Duarte, A Geraci, S Granato, G Mazzarella… - 2020 - publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
… This report evaluates the YEI implementation in Portugal, using counterfactual impact
evaluation (CIE) methods to estimate its causal impact on young individuals’ labour market …

Estimating counterfactuals for evaluation of ecological and conservation impact: an introduction to matching methods

LGS Ribas, RL Pressey, LM Bini - Biological Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… practices of impact evaluation in the environmental sciences: “In presentations on evaluation
to … accurate impact evaluations of protected areas, as exemplified next. In early studies, the …

A global comparative analysis of impact evaluation methods in estimating the effectiveness of protected areas

LG dos Santos Ribas, RL Pressey, R Loyola… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Thus, because our main goal was to compare counterfactual and traditional impact evaluation
methods, we simplified the results by not considering refinements such as calipers, and by …