Experimentation at Scale
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This paper makes the case for greater use of randomized experiments "at scale." We review various critiques of experimental program evaluation in developing countries, and discuss how experimenting at scale along three specific dimensions-the size of the sampling frame, the number of units treated, and the size of the unit of randomization- can help alleviate the concerns raised. We find that program-evaluation randomized controlled trials published over the last 15 years have typically been "small" in these senses, but also identify a number of examples-including from our own work- demonstrating that experimentation at much larger scales is both feasible and valuable
Cartography · Data science · Econometrics · Geography · Industrial engineering · Mathematics education · Population · Randomization · Randomized controlled trial · Randomized experiment · Sampling frame · Sociology · Statistics · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Computer Science · Engineering · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
Raising the bar
Designing Effective Teacher Performance Pay Programs
The Refugee Trap
Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Education
RCTs to Scale
Improving Administrative Data at Scale
Experimental Evidence on Four Policies to Increase Learning at Scale
Inference from field and laboratory experiments in economics
All pain and no gain
Experimental evidence, scaling and public policy
How can experiments play a greater role in public policy? Twelve proposals from an economic model of scaling
A Protocol for the Review of Examples of Transformational Change in the Energy and Public Health Sectors to Inform Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Interventions
Scale, Depth and Duration
Nobel Rebels in Disguise — Assessing the Rise and Rule of the Randomistas
Responding to the learning crisis
Investing in Human Capital in Africa
Price, information and product quality
Experimental approaches in development and poverty alleviation
Evidence-based development needs a diversity of tools, with a bottom-up process of “embedded” dialogue
The challenges of scaling effective interventions
Community matters
Impact of use of technology on student learning outcomes
Scaling up sanitation
Learning effects of conditional cash transfers
Motivating bureaucrats with behavioral insights when state capacity is weak
Implementation and effects of India's national school-based iron supplementation program
Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development
Community monitoring and social accountability in development projects
Institutions, implementation, and program effectiveness
Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide Experiments in Belgium
Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Policy Experimentation in China
Enhancing Human Capital in Children
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium
How Do Doctors Respond to Incentives? Unintended Consequences of Paying Doctors to Reduce Costs
Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development
How Informed is Consent? A Field Experiment in Pakistan
Behavioural land use policy studies
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico
External Validity
Ending Global Poverty
Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
The Aggregate Effect of School Choice
Strengthening State Capabilities
Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation
Instruments, Randomization, and Learning about Development
Power to the People
The Burden of Knowledge and the “Death of the Renaissance Man”
Targeting the Poor
Worms
Impact of the Mexican Program for Education, Health, and Nutrition (Progresa) on Rates of Growth and Anemia in Infants and Young Children
Building State Capacity
Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India
School subsidies for the poor
Teacher Performance Pay
Self-Targeting
Monitoring Corruption
The Impact of Diagnostic Feedback to Teachers on Student Learning
The Use of Structural Models in Econometrics
Assessing the Case for Social Experiments
Theory, General Equilibrium, and Political Economy in Development Economics
| Unique citing works | 44 |
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| Citations per year | 5.5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |