Dana Wanzer

Most evaluators are quick to say that the evaluation questions drive the methods. I think most evaluators would agree with this statement. However, what do you do about that pesky budget? How does the budget play a role in determining the questions and/or methods? Ideally, we’d have an unlimited budget and would always use the …

During our latest #EvalTwitter chat, I asked people to write up tips for attendees of the AEA Evaluation Conference (hashtag #Eval18). I got some great responses and wanted to collect them here to share easily with others. First, I would like to mention that @DonnaPodems created a great LinkedIn post with tips for evaluators.  Next …

I am pretty fortunate that one of the companies I work for is incredibly interested in shifting the organization towards R. One of those shifts was my boss asking, “Can we recreate this report in R? Can we create the report so that it can be automated back to the client immediately after asession?” The …

This year I am going to be far less busy at the AEA conference! I will only be presenting two papers, both of which are research projects I am conducting with Dr. Tarek Azzam and colleagues at Claremont Graduate University. The abstracts and more information about the sessions are below. I will write up blog posts …