Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix-Working Paper 336

By L. Pritchett. 2013

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• Can self-help group programs improve women’s empowerment? A systematic review (2017, background): “OLS regression analyses usually do not allow for addressing counterfactual questions, but Pritchett and Sandefur (2013) proposed that including these types of studies can increase the relevance of the systematic review.”
• Agricultural innovation and inclusive value-chain development: a review (2018, background): “Several authors have questioned policy recommendations that they believe are based on the implicit extrapolation from a small number of trials to a wide variety of dissimilar contexts (Deaton, 2010; Pritchett and Sandefur, 2013).”
• Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action (2017, unknown): “Having deemed that a particular development intervention “works,” especially if verified by a notionally “rigorous” methodology, too many researchers and policymakers mistakenly take this empirical claim as warrant for advising others that they too should now adopt this intervention and reasonably e”
• Economic Self-Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review (2015, background): “Nevertheless, Pritchett and Sandefur (2013) proposed that including these types of studies in a meta-analysis can increase the relevance of the meta-analysis because it allows for the inclusion of studies in contexts without rigorous studies regarding the specific topic.”
• Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations (2014, background): “First, the details of design and implementation of educational interventions matter (Pritchett & Sandefur, 2013).”