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Cover -- Series page -- Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction -- CHAPTER 2: Visionary Evaluatives' Perspectives Part 1 -- CHAPTER 3: Visionary Evaluative Principles -- SECTOR VISIONING -- CHAPTER 4: Social Protection -- CHAPTER 5: Nature -- CHAPTER 6: Law -- CHAPTER 7: Business -- CHAPTER 8: Health -- CHAPTER 9: Financial Investing -- CHAPTER 10: Transportation -- CHAPTER 11: Education -- CHAPTER 12: Design -- CHAPTER 13: Visionary Evaluative Inquiry -- CHAPTER 14: Visionary Evaluatives' Perspectives Part 2 -- CHAPTER 15: Conclusion -- ABOUT THE EDITORS -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.

Policymakers in welfare democracies throughout the world are raising questions as to whether welfare systems deliver what the public expects, and focus attention on increasing costs. Social workers need more evidence and knowledge about an increasing diversity of social work practices.Users of social welfare are increasingly individualized and made responsible for choosing and delivering their own service through contacts, and this makes politicians, social workers and users more interested in evidence and knowledge about social services, even though these interests are often conflicting. These tendencies might be part of the reasons why the evaluation of social work practice seems to be characterized at present by a variety and diversity of research methods, approaches and theories.Politicians, social workers and researchers more and more often use the term knowledge-based instead of evidence-based when they describe the practice they aim to develop through research. This is often an expression of a broader perception of research approaches that can help to produce the required knowledge.The contributors to this book hold a diversity of positions on evidence-based and knowledge-based practice

Preface : the evaluation enterprise, or evaluation as an enterprise / Nicoletta Stame And Jan-Eric Furubo -- Understanding the evaluation enterprise / Jan-Eric Furubo -- The politics : administration dichotomy and evaluation / Nicoletta Stame -- The skeptical turn in evaluation / Peter Dahler-Larsen -- From law to reality : a critical view on the institutionalization of evaluation in the Swiss canton of Geneva's Parliament / Katia Horber-Papazian and Christian Rosser -- Evaluation overload and evaluation underload / Rolf Sandahl -- Accountability's two solitudes and the questions it raises : accountability to whom? by whom? and for what? / Burt Perrin -- Italian evaluation policy between centralization and judicially-enforced accountability / Mita Marra -- Getting value for money? : a critical analysis of the costs and benefits of evaluation / Kim Forss -- The journey to a professional designation for evaluators in Canada / Marie-Helene Adrien And Lauren-Victoria Hellrung -- The concerted effort to professionalize evaluation practice : whither are we bound? / Thomas A. Schwandt -- The commercial side of evaluation : evaluation as an industry and as a professional service / Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Sebastian Lemire, And Christina A. Christie -- Conclusion : towards a better understanding of the evaluation enterprise / Jan-Eric Furubo And Nicoletta Stame

This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. While the book is geared principally towards development practitioners and policymakers designing prospective impact evaluations, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in using impact evaluation. Prospective impact evaluations should be used selectively to assess whether or not a program has achieved its intended results, or to test alternatives for achieving those results. We consider that more and better impact evaluation will help strengthe

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Cover; Series page; Evaluation for a Caring Society; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Foreword (Schwandt); Foreword (Widdershoven); Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Photo-story of the Carefreestate; I am Zaitone; PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON A CARING SOCIETY; CHAPTER 1: Care, Competency, and Knowledge; CHAPTER 2: The Art of Understanding; PART II: DEMOCRATIC EVALUATION FOR A CARING SOCIETY; CHAPTER 3: Democratic Evaluation and Care Ethics; CHAPTER 4: Democratic Caring Evaluation for Refugee Children in Sweden

In recent years, interest in rigorous impact evaluation has grown tremendously in policy-making, economics, public health, social sciences and international relations. Evidence-based policy-making has become a recurring theme in public policy, alongside greater demands for accountability in public policies and public spending, and requests for independent and rigorous impact evaluations for policy evidence. Frölich and Sperlich offer a comprehensive and up-to-date approach to quantitative impact evaluation analysis, also known as causal inference or treatment effect analysis, illustrating the main approaches for identification and estimation: experimental studies, randomization inference and randomized control trials (RCTs), matching and propensity score matching and weighting, instrumental variable estimation, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity designs, quantile treatment effects, and evaluation of dynamic treatments. The book is designed for economics graduate courses but can also serve as a manual for professionals in research institutes, governments, and international organizations, evaluating the impact of a wide range of public policies in health, environment