Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness

By Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer. 2004

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Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs (2005, unknown): “Cook (2001) and Duflo and Kremer (2005) have advocated that OED should do many more social experiments.25 Before accepting that advice one should be aware of some of the concerns raised by experiments.”
Beyond Good Intentions: Designing CSR Initiatives for Greater Social Impact (2020, background): “Given that randomization of assignment to treatment and control groups is not always possible, statistical controls must be employed to account for observed and unobserved factors that influence self-selection (Duflo et al., 2007; Duflo & Kremer, 2005).”
USING RANDOMIZATION IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS RESEARCH: A TOOLKIT (2008, background): “2 We have provided such arguments elsewhere, see Duflo (2004) and Duflo and Kremer (2005). impact of the treatment from the factors that drove selection.”
Livestock sector development for poverty reduction: an economic and policy perspective. Livestock's many virtues. (2012, background): “To reduce uncertainty and identify the best institutional design for delivering some services, decision-makers may pilot a variety of institutional reforms in different areas, selected randomly from a larger set, and then scale up the most promising alternative to the country level at a later date27”
Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries - a survey of the recent economic literature (2004, unknown): “21 See Estache and others (2004).”
Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials (2016, unknown): “Earlier critiques in medicine include Feinstein and Horwitz (1997), Concato et al.”
How sustainable are sustainable development programs? The case of the sloping land conversion program in China. (2009, background): “Some of this work has focused on examining the impact of these programs on household income, on household land and labor allocation decisions as well as on the environmental externalities the programs sought to address (Duflo & Kremer, 2003).”
Foreign Aid and Inclusive Development: Updated Evidence from Africa, 2005-2012 (2017, unknown): “…of interventions (Banerjee & He, 2008); the imperative for more rigorous evaluation (Pritchett, 2008); Randomised Control Trials (RCTs, Duflo & Kremer, 2008); amputation, intensification and policy change based reforms (Pritchett & Woolcook, 2008); more articulation on ‘searching for…”