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Experiments in Development Economics

In recent years, experimental methods have been both highly celebrated, and roundly criticized, as a means of addressing core questions in the social sciences. They have received particular attention in the analysis of development interventions. The studies in this special issue push beyond polarized debates over experimental methods towards a new middle ground, considering both how experimental work can better address identified weaknesses and how experimental and non-experimental techniques can be combined most fruitfully.

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Rachel M. Gisselquist

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

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June 2015

Journal of Globalization and Development, Berkeley Electronic Press,

Volume 6, Issue 1

© Walter de Gruyter GmbH / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Table of contents
  1. 1. What Can Experiments Tell Us About How to Improve Government Performance?
    Rachel M. Gisselquist, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
    More Working Paper | What Can Experiments Tell Us About How to Improve Governance?
  2. 2. Experimental and Non-Experimental Methods in Development Economics: A Porous Dialectic
    Rajeev Dehejia
    More Working Paper | The Porous Dialectic
  3. 3. A Graphical Approximation to Generalization: Definitions and Diagrams
    Fernando Martel García, Leonard Wantchekon
    More Working Paper | A Graphical Approximation to Generalization
  4. 4. Reflections on the Ethics of Social Experimentation
    Macartan Humphreys
    More Working Paper | Reflections on the Ethics of Social Experimentation
  5. 5. Ancillary Studies of Experiments: Opportunities and Challenges
    Kate Baldwin, Rikhil R. Bhavnani
    More Working Paper | Ancillary Experiments
  6. 6. Evaluating Antipoverty Transfer Programmes in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa: Better Policies? Better Politics?
    Armando Barrientos, Juan M. Villa
    More Working Paper | Evaluating Antipoverty Transfer Programmes in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
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Experimental and non-experimental methods to study government performance: contributions and limits

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Policy Brief
| Experiments in government performance
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