Economics · Development Economics
A topic within Development Economics, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Economics.
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Esther Duflo (TED)
Argues that development questions like whether bed nets should be free are empirical rather than ideological, and that randomised trials settle them where decades of argument did not.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Edward Miguel & Michael Kremer
A randomised deworming trial that measured effects on untreated neighbouring schools too, finding the programme's real value was concentrated in the externality standard trials miss.
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