Randomized controlled trials are a newly popular tool in economic development research. Esther Duflo is a face behind most of this research, as she runs the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, and she spoke at our department conference this spring. This type of evaluation research seems to me to be essential in figuring out what actually works in development before trusting theories and historic ideas. There's a long article in the New Yorker from the May 17 issue about Duflo.
Here, she explains in her work in her TED talk:
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/esther-duflo-explains-her-work/weeblylink_new_window
Just as a side note, she was tenured at MIT when she was 29 years old. Pretty baller.
Here, she explains in her work in her TED talk:
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/esther-duflo-explains-her-work/weeblylink_new_window
Just as a side note, she was tenured at MIT when she was 29 years old. Pretty baller.
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