Books, Manual and Reports

• López-Acevedo et al., (2011) Editors 'Impact Evaluation of Small and Medium Enterprise Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean', World Bank
• CGD Evaluation Gap Working Group (2006), 'When will we ever learn?', Centre for Global Development, USA   
• Judy Baker (2000), 'Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty: A Handbook for Practitioners',World Bank, Washington, USA
• Alejandro R. Jadad and Murray W. Enkin (2007), 'Randomized Control Trials: Question, Answers and Musings' 2nd Edition, BMJ Books
• Jason Osborne (editor) (2008), 'Best Practices in Quantitative Methods', SAGE Publications  
• Rebekka E. Grun (2006), ' Monitoring and Evaluating Projects: A step-by-step Primer on Monitoring, Benchmarking, and Impact Evaluation', Health, Nutrition and Population Discussion Paper, World Bank, USA
• Paul Gertler et al., (2010), 'Impact Evaluation in Practice', World Bank, USA
• Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke (2009), 'Mostly Harmless Econometrics', Princeton University Press
• Ben Goldacre (2009), 'Bad Science', Harper Perennial
• Independent Evaluation Group (2011), Writing terms of reference for an evaluation: A how-to guide, World Bank, USA
• William Greene, ‘Econometric Analysis’, 5^th edition, Princeton hall business publishing
• Shahidur Khandker et al., (2009) ‘Handbook on impact evaluation: quantitative methods and practices’, World Bank, USA

Journals

• American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
• Journal of Development Effectiveness
• Special issue of IDS Bulletin on impact evaluation
• GDN British Library for Development Studies research papers delivery service: Over 1000 journals, 4000 serials and 80,000 monographs on economic and social change in developing countries available for research institutes in the South.

Papers

• Michael Bamberger (2006) 'Conducting Quality Impact Evaluations Under Time and Budget Constraints', World Bank, Washington USA. 
• Martin Ravallion (1999) 'The mystery of the vanashing benefits: Ms Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation', Policy Research Working Paper 2153, World Bank, Washington, USA
• Martin Ravallion (2008) 'Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs', Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 4 ( 395.08 KB)
• Martin Ravallion (2008) 'Evaluation in the Practice of Development', Policy Research Working Paper 4547, World Bank, Washington, USA ( 147.45 KB)
• Howard White (2006) 'Impact Evaluation: the experience of the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group'
• Howard White (2007) 'Evaluating Aid Impact', Research Paper No. 2007/75, UNU-WIDER    
• Nicola Jones et al (2009) 'Improving Impact Evaluation Production and Use', ODI Working Paper 300
• Dani Rodrik (2008) "The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment, But How Shall We Learn?" HKS Working Paper No. RWP08-055
• Christopher Barrett and Michael Carter (2010) 'The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics: Some Non-random Reflections', Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 32, Number 4, p 515-548
• Paul Rosenbaum and Donald Rubin (1983) ‘The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Causal Effects’, Biometrika, Volume 70, No 1, pp 41-55
• Alberto Abadie, Guido Imbens (2009) ‘Matching on the Estimated Propensity Score’, NBER Working Paper No. w15301
• Joshua Angrist, Guido Imbens (1996), Donald Rubin ‘Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables’,Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 91, No. 434
• Angus Deaton (2009) "Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development" Working Paper 1122, Princeton University

Thematic resources

• Climate change evaluation: Rob D. van den Berg (2010) 'supporting evaluation capacity on environment and development', forthcoming IDEAS publication "Influencing Change: Evaluation and Capacity Development"
• GEF Evaluation of climate change and development platform - www.climate-eval.org/
• Water and sanitation: Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion (2003), 'Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India?', Journal of Econometrics, vol. 112, issue 1, pages 153-173
• World Health Organization, Unicef (2006) ‘Core Questions on Drinking-Water and Sanitation for Household Surveys’ WHO, Switzerland

Paper series

• NONIE Working Paper series
• World Bank PREM 'Doing Impact Evaluation and Impact Evaluation Working Paper series'
• World Bank Impact Evaluation Working Paper series

Tool-kits and presentations

• The Ins and Outs of Impact Evaluation and PSIA: PREM workshop material
• PREVAL Infographics 'Developing a baseline study'
• World Bank PowerPoint 'Developing a High Quality Baseline'
• World Bank "Are you being served: New tools for measuring service delivery"
• University of Reading 'Some basic ideas of sampling' 
• 3ie Impact evaluation Glossary
• 3ie PowerPoint "What is impact evaluation, when and how should we use it, and how to go about it?"
• 3ie PowerPoint "Evaluating governance through theory of change"
• 3ie PowerPoint "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental designs"
• 3ie PowerPoint "Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) and Health"
• Presentations and workshop material from the 2009 Cairo conference on Perspectives on Impact Evaluations
• Additional presentations from 3ie workshops

Websites

• Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
• Africa Impact Evaluation Network (African researchers and impact evaluation projects datasets)
• Evaluation portal (general evaluation links)
• Evaluation listservs
• Manpower Demostration Research Cooperation (MDRC)
• Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation (NONIE)
• PREM (World Bank) Impact Site (includes links to impact evaluation database and "Doing impact evaluation" Working Paper series)
• Wikipedia on impact evaluation
• Resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods