The Education team of World Bank Vietnam organizes a two-day and a half training session on impact evaluation with a particular focus on education policies as part of the Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (VEAM) 2022. The overarching goal of the session is to provide participants with a thorough understanding of “state-of-the-art” impact evaluation methods and designs and enable participants to conduct their own research using new tools. It also provides examples of how these methods have been applied in developing economies, in particular, to evaluate the impact of education reforms. Economists, researchers, and Ph.D. candidates (VEAM and non-VEAM participants) are welcome to take it.
Start date November 25, 2022; End date November 27, 2022
Location Hanoi, Vietnam
Address Foreign Trade University Campus
Paul Glewwe is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. His interests are economics of education, inequality, income mobility, poverty, and child nutrition in developing countries, and applied econometrics. Since receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, he has conducted research on the following developing countries: Brazil, China, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Ghana, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. His recent publications have appeared in the Handbook of the Economics of Education, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Political Economy and World Bank Economic Review. Glewwe serves as an Associate Editor for the Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Tentative Program
November 25, 2022
- Morning Session (9h-12h, with 2 breaks): Course Introduction, The Evaluation Problem, and Introduction to Regression Methods
- Afternoon Session (14h-17h, with 2 breaks): Difference-in-Differences (DID) Estimation
November 26, 2022
- Morning Session (9h-12h, with 2 breaks): Matching Methods
- Afternoon Session (14h-17h, with 2 breaks): Regression Discontinuity and Instrumental Variables
November 27, 2022 (optional)
- Morning Session (9h-12h, with 2 breaks): Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT)
Fees
Free for accepted participants.
Who can apply?
We welcome applications from all economists, researchers, and Ph.D. candidates (VEAM and non-VEAM participants).
Registration Procedure
You are requested to send a short expression of interest and your CV to tdao5@worldbank.org and ngocanh@depocen.org. The application deadline is Friday, November 11, 2022.
The maximum number of participants allowed in the session is 25.
Priority will be given to Ph.D. candidates and early-stage researchers.
Reading Materials
Glewwe, Paul; Todd, Petra. 2022. Impact Evaluation in International Development: Theory, Methods and Practice. Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/37152 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.