This report describes Mathematica's design for the evaluation of the first ever Development Impact Bond in a refugee context. The evaluation seeks to measure the metrics to determine payments to investors and generate broader learning about the program's impacts.
The Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) Training Activity, which aims to improve the technical capacity of the energy sector workforce through improved training for LEC staff and technicians.
The Mt. Coffee Support Activity, addresses environmental and social risks associated with the rehabilitation of Mt. Coffee Hydropower Plant and aims to increase productive uses of electricity.
We implemented a randomized controlled trial among transnational households in the Philippines estimating impacts of a financial education treatment, a financial access treatment, and the combination of the two on financial behaviors.
We synthesized interim findings for activities that have been underway for several years and for households and businesses that have been connected to electricity for years. We also analyzed baseline findings for a study of households and businesses that have not yet connected to the grid.
This report describes Mathematica’s comprehensive mixed-methods approach to the impact and performance evaluations of Activities 1 and 2.
In this report we describe a mixed-methods evaluation to assess the effects of the MCC-funded Secondary Education Activity in Morocco.
This paper uses exogenous exchange rate shocks arising from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to distinguish between the motivations of Australian immigrants to return to their home country.
Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? This paper uses exogenous exchange rate shocks arising from the 1997 Asian financial crisis to distinguish between theories of what motivates Australian immigrants to return to their home country.
What is the value of return migrants and the foreign experience they bring to domestic employers? This paper describes an experiment conducted in the Philippines, in which over 8,000 fictitious resumes were randomly assigned varying lengths of foreign work experience and were sent to online job ads.