Motivation
The last few decades have seen explosive growth in randomized impact evaluations that seek to guide policy decision-making in low- and middle-income countries. IDEAL will contribute to translating the insights from multiple studies into actionable and credible policy insights by making the impact of different interventions easily comparable across studies. Beyond this core purpose, IDEAL will help guide the standardization of key information from randomized evaluations and unlock the potential to answer a wide range of methodological questions about RCTs.
Next Steps
Once IDEAL is established, we will invite others to join, guided by consistent protocols for adding new content and rigorous quality control. We will provide public access to IDEAL data, aided by a website that can filter studies by a wide range of criteria and display results immediately. We will also develop a set of pedagogical resources to make evidence aggregation methods widely accessible.
