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Thomas De Hoop

Principal Economist

Thomas de Hoop is a principal economist at AIR in Washington D.C. He has 13 years of experience designing, implementing, and leading mixed-methods impact evaluations and systematic reviews in low-and middle-income countries. Currently, he oversees a research and evaluation portfolio with a focus on the impact, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of women’s groups. He is the co-principal investigator of the Evidence Consortium on Women’s Groups, a four-year research project supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that focuses on synthesizing, strengthening, and disseminating research on the impact, cost-effectiveness, and implementation models of women’s groups operating at scale in India, Nigeria, and Uganda. For this project he leads or co-leads experimental and quasi-experimental studies on the synergistic effects of self-help groups and social protection programs in India, evidence syntheses on the impact, and implementation models of women’s groups in Uganda and Nigeria, a systematic review on the impact of economic self-help group programs on asset ownership, cost-effectiveness analyses of women’s groups in India and Uganda, and studies on the functioning of women’s groups after COVID-19. In addition, he guides the Gender Equality team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the use of evidence to inform the Foundation’s gender equality strategy and led the development of a guide for measuring women’s empowerment and economic outcomes in impact evaluations of women’s groups.

Dr. de Hoop is also the principal or co-principal investigator for a cluster-randomized controlled trial to determine the impact of a technology-aided instruction program on learning outcomes among students in community schools in Zambia, a quasi-experimental study on the impact of an affordable housing program in India, an assessment of the social and economic outcomes of organic cotton farmers in India, and an evidence synthesis on the impact and cost-effectiveness of education programs for forcibly displaced populations.

Previously, Dr. de Hoop was the principal investigator on a three-year research project supported by UNICEF, UNHCR, and DFID that aimed to generate rigorous evidence on how to facilitate the effective scaling of innovations in education in protracted crisis settings. For this project, he led a meta-evaluation that synthesized the lessons learned from five process evaluations and three impact evaluations of education innovations. For this meta-evaluation, he led four mixed-methods studies that examined the impact and scaling models of a remedial education program in Kenya and multifaceted education programs in Jordan and Rwanda. He also led a cluster-randomized controlled trial of an early childhood development program in Bangladesh, a quasi-experimental evaluation of an economic self-help group program in India, and a strategy for future impact evaluation work in UNICEF’s education office. In addition, he co-authored Campbell systematic reviews on the effects of economic self-help group programs on women’s empowerment, the effects of vocational and business training programs on women’s labor market outcomes, and the impact of education programs on early grade literacy in Latin-America and the Caribbean.

Related Work

8 Oct 2020
Spotlight

Educating Girls and Women Throughout the World

20 Feb 2020
Report

Midline Report for the Mixed-Methods Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of Impact Network’s eSchool 360 Model in Rural Zambia

14 Jan 2020
Journal Article

What Works to Improve Early Grade Literacy in Latin America and the Caribbean? A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Project

Humanitarian Education Accelerator

21 Aug 2019
Q & A

Meet the Expert: Dr. Thomas de Hoop

Project

Evidence Consortium on Women's Groups

Project

Social, Economic, and Environmental Impact Assessment of Cotton Farming in Madhya Pradesh, India

30 Jul 2018
Journal Article

Language and the Learning Crisis: Evidence of Transfer Threshold Mechanisms in Multilingual Reading in South India

11 Jun 2018
Service

Refugee and Migrant Initiatives

30 Apr 2018
Report

Baseline Report for the Mixed-Methods Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of Impact Network’s eSchool 360 Model in Rural Zambia

1 Dec 2017
Report

Vocational and Business Training to Improve Women’s Labour Market Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

1 Oct 2017
Report

The Effects of Mainstreaming Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Under BRAC’s MNCH Programme

26 Sep 2017
Report

Inception Report for the Mixed- Methods Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of Impact Network’s eSchool 360 Model in Rural Zambia

Project

Evaluation of World University Service of Canada’s Remedial Education Program in Dadaab and Kakuma in Kenya

13 Apr 2017
Service

Content and Technical Expertise in Refugee and Migrant Initiatives

Project

Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of Impact Network’s eSchool 360 Program in Rural Zambia

Project

Evaluation of Generation Rwanda’s Kepler Program

12 Feb 2015
Report

Facilitating Reading Acquisition in Multilingual Environments in India (FRAME-India) - Final Report

Project

Impact Evaluation of an Affordable Housing Program in India

Project

Vocational and Business Training to Increase Women’s Participation in Higher Skilled, Higher Valued Occupations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: 3ie Systematic Review

Project

Impact Evaluation of BRAC’s Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Program

21 Apr 2014
Report

Women's Autonomy and Subjective Well-Being: How Gender Norms Shape the Impact of Self-Help Groups in Odisha, India

Project

Review of Evaluations Commissioned by UTZ Certified

Project

Synthesis Review of and Evaluation Strategy for UNICEF’s Basic Education Interventions

1 Jan 2014
Report

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)

Project

The Effects of Economic Self-Help Group Programs on Women’s Empowerment: A Systematic Review

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Areas of Expertise

International
International Health and Social Protection
Refugee and Migrant Populations
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Education

Ph.D., Development Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen; MSc, Development Economics, VU University Amsterdam

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