THE NEW DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS: WE SHALL EXPERIMENT, BUT HOW SHALL WE LEARN?*

By Dani Rodrik. 2008

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WORKING PAPER SERIES BETTER LATE THAN NOTHING : SOME COMMENTS ON DEATON ( 2009 ) AND HECKMAN AND URZUA (background): “These are not new concerns, and I am sympathetic with the comments in this regard made by, for example, Rodrik (2008). There is clearly much room for non-experimental work, and history abounds with examples where causality has ultimately found general acceptance without any experimental evidence.”
Handbook of innovation systems and developing countries (2009, background): “One important issue that we discussed in Chapter 13 is how research may interact with experimentation in the context of public policy (Rodrik, 2008).”
Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix-Working Paper 336 (2013, neutral): “…the dichotomy as “planners” and “searchers” but many other scholars, from different disciplines and with different politics, posit a similar dichotomy.1 Rodrik (2008) called the “new development economics” an approach of “experimentation” which emphasized the adaptation to local context and a…”
The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics: Some Non‐random Reflections (2010, background): “Heckman (1992; 2010), Deaton and Leamer (1983; 2010) discuss a variety of statistical limitations to the internal validity of RCT estimates that merit brief mention.”
Microfinance: its Impact, Outreach and Sustainability (2011, background): “Also, incentives for academic researchers to invest in rerunning experiments are absent, since leading journals are generally not inclined to publish this type of research (Easterly, 2009; Rodrik, 2008; Roodman & Morduch, 2009).”
The Experimental Approach to Development Economics (2009, background): “However it is often claimed---See Rodrik (2008) for example---that environmental dependence is less of an issue for observational studies because these studies cover much larger areas and as a result, the treatment” effect is an average across a large number of settings and therefore more…”
Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action (2017, neutral): “2009), “the science of muddling through” (Lindblom 1959, 1979), the “sabotage of harms” (Sparrow 2008), “second-best institutions” (Rodrik 2008), “interim institutions” (Adler et al.”
Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries (2011, background): “…consistent with both the early development economics literature, for instance Hirschman (1958) on linkages, Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) on the need for a ‘big push’, and also consistent with the more recent development economics literature on the need for good institutions (e.g. Rodrik, 2000; 2008).”
Better Late than Nothing: Some Comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009) (2010, background): “These are not new concerns, and I am sympathetic with the comments in this regard made by, for example, Rodrik (2008). There is clearly much room for non-experimental work, and history abounds with examples where causality has ultimately found general acceptance without any experimental evidence.”
Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability: Current Policy Issues (2010, neutral): “Morawczynski and Pickens (2009); Safaricom (2009). (19).”