Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty

By Javier Solana, J. Santiso. 2014

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Combining observational and experimental data to find heterogeneous treatment effects (2016, background): “This is for a very good reason: when decision-makers employ experimentation they have a far greater chance of making good decisions than with observation alone [22, 4, 20, 19, 6].”
The Heterogeneous Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers (2013, background): “Given the mounting evidence suggesting that households are constrained in their knowledge of the best course of action, social programs that encourage them to pursue desirable actions are potentially welfare enhancing (Banerjee and Duflo, 2011).”
The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda (2016, neutral): “By way of comparison, the six livestock-based graduation programs evaluated by Banerjee et al. (2015) had IRRs ranging from 2 percent to 24 percent two years after the program, with an average IRR of 8 percent.”
PRISMA-Equity 2012 Extension: Reporting Guidelines for Systematic Reviews with a Focus on Health Equity (2012, background): “Well-designed, scientific evaluations that assess effects on health equity are needed to break the poverty trap [7].”
The Economist as Plumber (2017, background): “On the positive side, policy makers’ inattention to detail creates a space for policy improvements even in environments where the policy discussion is paralyzed, or where institutions are not good (Banerjee and Duflo, 2012).”
Women’s Empowerment and Economic Development: A Feminist Critique of Storytelling Practices in “Randomista” Economics (2020, background): “There has been insufﬁcient attention to what works on the ground: “Ideology, ignorance and inertia” explain why so much of past development effort has failed (Banerjee and Duﬂo 2011: 16).”
Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics (2014, background): “In recent decades, for example, randomized control trials have been reinstated as the methodological gold standard for development research (Banerjee and Duflo, 2012), and the ‘nudges’ of behavioural economics have provided new ways of responding to bounded rationality (Thaler and Sunstein, 2008).”
Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India (2016, positive): “Practical implementation models have included providing a teaching assistant to pull out lagging students from class and teaching them basic competencies (Banerjee et al., 2007), tracking classrooms to facilitate teaching closer to the learning level of students (Duflo, Dupas and Kremer, 2011), and ”
Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, and Institutions: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship across Nations (2013, neutral): “483May, 2013 access to institutionalized markets due to weak rule of law tend also to scale down their aspirations (Banerjee & Duflo, 2011).”