Impact evaluation/External Links

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Prominent organizations that conduct impact evaluations (arranged alphabetically):

• The Abdul Latif Jameel Povery Action Lab (J-PAL), a "network of 51 affiliated professors around the world who are united by their use of Randomized Evaluations (REs) to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation." J-PAL is headquartered within the Economics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Through MIT's open courseware website, J-PAL offers a free online executive training program to introduce randomized evaluations to organizations interested in conducting them.
• The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), an independent unit within the World Bank.
• Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a nonprofit dedicated to alleviating poverty through randomized evaluations.
• The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) has a large database of impact evaluations as well as a useful impact evaluation glossary (in PDF format).