Responding to policy makers' evaluation needs: combining experimental and quasi-experimental approaches to estimate the impact of performance based financing in Burkina Faso

• Main Authors: Manuela De Allegri (Author), Julia Lohmann (Author), Aurélia Souares (Author), Michael Hillebrecht (Author), Saidou Hamadou (Author), Hervé Hien (Author), Ousmane Haidara (Author), Paul Jacob Robyn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The last two decades have seen a growing recognition of the need to expand the impact evaluation toolbox from an exclusive focus on randomized controlled trials to including quasi-experimental approaches. This appears to be particularly relevant when evaluation complex health int...