Linda Mabry’s scientific contributions

... Besides generalizability, it is important to emphasize relevance to answering decision makers' most crucial questions (World Bank, 2013), which may be constrained by a particular method or set of methods. Related to these issues, Table 1 discusses: (a) whether the IE pertains to an artifactual (largely researcher-constructed) or real-world (as implemented) situation (Bamberger & Mabry, 2019;Stern et al., 2012); (b) the population to which the evaluation evidence applies (i.e., whether it is all of those treated or some unique sub-sample) (Olsen et al., 2013); (c) the likelihood that the produced evidence will be convincing to domain and IE experts; (d) whether results are highly conditioned by assumptions that cannot be easily substantiated (Chatterji, 2016); and (e) whether the evidence is likely to be precise from a statistical perspective (Turner et al., 2013). The answers to these questions are often related, with tradeoffs among them. ...

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Impact evaluation of water infrastructure investme