Ultra-Poor BRAC Graduation Program: a Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Impact Evaluation
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- What is the average impact of the BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation program? Despite numerous impact studies, the debate remains partly unsettled because of the important heterogeneity in program effects across different places. In this thesis, I apply Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling on a dataset that includes six Graduation pilots to jointly estimate this heterogeneity and the average effects of the intervention. I find an important true variability in effect across places and use it to estimate the realistic average impact as well as site-specific program effect. I find that the cross-pilots effectiveness of the intervention is not as statistically significative as previously thought. The analysis highlights the limited external validity of the site effect estimates.
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De Bundel, F. (2021). Ultra-Poor BRAC Graduation Program: a Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Impact Evaluation. https://dial-mem.test.bib.ucl.ac.be/handle/2078.2/25845