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An impact evaluation design for the Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana

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  • Edoardo Masset
  • Arnab Acharya
  • Chris Barnett
  • Tony Dogbe

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This article details the design of an impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana. The evaluation is particularly challenging because the intervention cannot be randomised; it is clustered in a group of homogeneous communities and likely to generate spill-over effects. We propose a difference-in-differences design selecting control communities based on a propensity score and collecting five rounds of yearly data. We address a number of evaluation questions in relation to testing the breaking of the poverty trap, assessing project externalities, the role of qualitative research, cost-effectiveness and project synergies, sustainability and scalability in the presence of scale economies.

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  • Edoardo Masset & Arnab Acharya & Chris Barnett & Tony Dogbe, 2013. "An impact evaluation design for the Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana," Journal of Development Effectiveness, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 137-157, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevef:v:5:y:2013:i:2:p:137-157
    DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2013.790914
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    1. Michael Clemens, Gabriel Demombynes, 2013. "The New Transparency in Development Economics: Lessons from the Millennium Villages Controversy," Working Papers 342, Center for Global Development.
    2. Masset, Edoardo & García-Hombrados, Jorge & Acharya, Arnab, 2020. "Aiming high and falling low: The SADA-Northern Ghana Millennium Village Project," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).
    3. Shira Mitchell & Andrew Gelman & Rebecca Ross & Joyce Chen & Sehrish Bari & Uyen Kim Huynh & Matthew W. Harris & Sonia Ehrlich Sachs & Elizabeth A. Stuart & Avi Feller & Susanna Makela & Alan M. Zasla, "undated". "The Millennium Villages Project: A Retrospective, Observational, Endline Evaluation," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 8376cf28448b40f69543be760, Mathematica Policy Research.
    4. Masset, Edoardo & García-Hombrados, Jorge, 2021. "Sensitivity matters. Comparing the use of multiple indicators and of a multidimensional poverty index in the evaluation of a poverty eradication program," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).

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