Matt Sloan
Senior Survey Researcher; Associate Director

He is directing an impact evaluation of the Niger Threshold Country Program—a program intended to reduce corruption; register more businesses; promote land titling; and increase girls’ school enrollment, attendance, and completion rates. Sloan also directs the program evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Account Compact with Madagascar, which is designed to increase investment in rural areas through land tenure, finance, and agricultural investment projects. On that project, he leads efforts to design and implement an ex post evaluation of activities within each of these components. He directs an impact evaluation for the Rwanda Threshold Country Program, which aims to strengthen the rule of law, civil society, civic participation, media, and the inspectorate services of the national police. He advises the World Cocoa Foundation Gender Mainstreaming and Monitoring and Evaluation Framework Design on the design of the Cocoa Livelihoods Program and provides technical consultation on its multiyear impact evaluation. This program aims to increase household incomes in the cocoa-producing areas of five countries in West and Central Africa. He was recently the survey director for the Impact Evaluation of the Burkina Faso Girl’s Education Threshold Country Program, which included more than 9,000 interviews with rural households and schools to evaluate an innovative set of interventions designed to improve girls’ education. For that project he also assisted in analysis, reporting, and the presentation of final results, which employed a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impacts of the program.

Sloan has managed a wide range of large, complex data collections in the United States on topics including health, nutrition, education, and welfare. These projects have used in-person, telephone, and internet surveys and a variety of qualitative methods, including focus groups and in-depth interviews. He was the associate survey director for the National Beneficiary Survey, a longitudinal survey for the Social Security Administration of 11,000 disability beneficiaries, for which he led the computer-assisted personal interviewing effort and interviewer training. He was the survey director for the Evaluation of the Money Follows the Person Demonstration, for which he designed a survey to measure Medicaid beneficiaries’ quality of life and provided technical assistance to 31 states that administered the survey. He also led the development of a web-based data collection system for Work Incentive Planning and Assistance grantees that captured demographic information for and services provided to disability beneficiaries for the Social Security Administration.

Sloan regularly presents to professional associations, including the American Association for Public Opinion Research, on methodology issues. He speaks French and holds an M.S. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin—Madison and a B.A. in international relations from Pomona College.