Experimental designs in public policy evaluation: Uses and abuses
The present essay discusses the strengths and, above all, the limits of using experimental and quasi-experimental methods in evaluating public programs. It begins with a brief presentation of classical experimental design, its requirements and related concepts such as internal, external, and counter...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Fundação Carlos Chagas (FCC) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos em Avaliação Educacional |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.publicacoes.fcc.org.br:article/9956 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://publicacoes.fcc.org.br/eae/article/view/9956 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Evaluation Public Policy Experiments Quasi-Experiments Avaliação Políticas Públicas Experimentos Quase-Experimentos Evaluación Casi-Experimentos |
| Resumo: | The present essay discusses the strengths and, above all, the limits of using experimental and quasi-experimental methods in evaluating public programs. It begins with a brief presentation of classical experimental design, its requirements and related concepts such as internal, external, and counterfactual validity. Next, it addresses the modalities of quasi-experimental evaluation design, wich relax the requirements of the classical experiment. Two critical sections point out the ethical, political, and operational limitations of experimental and quasi-experimental designs in program evaluation and, subsequently, the political-institutional motivations for the resilience of this approach in spite of well-known and recurrent robustness problems. |
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