The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

By Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo. 2009

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Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education (2013, background): “Banerjee et al. (2007) present results from a randomized evaluation showing that an NGO program in urban India hiring young women to tutor lagging students in grades 3 and 4 led to a 0.”
Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation (2016, background): “Despite these calls, conservation science still lags behind health, education, and development policy in adopting best practices in impact evaluation (Banerjee & Duflo 2009).”
Livestock sector development for poverty reduction: an economic and policy perspective. Livestock's many virtues. (2012, background): “The tendency to concentrate on best practice institutions or policies risks creating blind spots while alternative institutional designs that might achieve the desired objectives at lower cost are overlooked (Rodrik, 2007; Banerjee and Duflo 2009).”
The Economist as Plumber (2017, methodology): “In the Banerjee et al. (2015) experiment on the Raskin card, for example, there were several manipulations that permit quite precise evaluation of the mechanism at play.”
Better Late than Nothing: Some Comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009) (2010, background): “The proponents of randomization in the new development economics have argued persuasively in favor of doing multiple experiments (Duflo, 2004; Banerjee 2007, Banerjee and Duflo, 2008).”
From Short Food Supply Chains to Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Food Systems: Food Democracy as a Vector of Transition (2016, background): “The researcher was invited to take part in the enlarged management committee, and she discussed the conditions with its members: the Grabels market constituted a ‘case study’, in a broader intervention research program dedicated to producing new knowledge on short food chains; its members, partners ”
Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials (2016, neutral): “In the context of development studies, neither Banerjee and Duflo (2012) nor Karlan and Appel (2011), who cite many RCTs, raise concerns about misleading inference, implicitly treating all results as reliable.”
Entrepreneurship in emerging economies (2020, positive): “This field experimental approach has gained significant traction in development economics and led to the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics (Banerjee & Duflo, 2009).”