Abstract Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a new mechanism for delivering public services.
This article reviews the emerging SIB literature in high‐income settings. It identifies three …

Background Recruitment and retention of participants are both critical for the success of
trials, yet both remain significant problems. The use of incentives to target participants and …

This paper examines the synthetic control method in contrast to commonly used difference‐
in‐differences (DiD) estimation, in the context of a re‐evaluation of a pay‐for‐performance …

Abstract Difference-in-differences (DiD) estimators provide unbiased treatment effect
estimates when, in the absence of treatment, the average outcomes for the treated and …

ABSTRACT Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a novel financing mechanism for public services
delivery. This special issue about SIBs in the UK argues that they necessitate closer …

Background Results-based financing (RBF) has been introduced in many countries across
Africa and a growing literature is building around the assessment of their impact. These …

'The book would be a great text for advanced healthcare students, as it is chock-full of fair-
minded and complete discussions of different scholarly views. The book contains the musts …

The coordination of public services is an enduring challenge and an important policy priority.
One way to achieve collaboration across organizational boundaries, which is being …

Governments in some of the world's richest nations appear to be caught in a double
challenge of declining social budgets even as social needs are increasing. In this context …

Abstract Objectives Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a relatively new type of payment for
performance (P4P) contract focused on outcomes (ie 'payment by results'(PbR)) in which …