RCTs

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WORKING PAPER

Enhancing Young Children’s Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya - Working Paper 502
Heather A. Knauer et al.
February 07, 2019
Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive stimulation in early childhood. Several parent support programs have shown significant benefits for children’s development, but the programs are of...
Blog Post

In Bringing a Literacy Project to Scale, has Kenya Found a Holy Grail?

Barbara Bruns
October 26, 2018
An article of faith among development economists is that “evidence-based policy” holds the promise of faster progress. Barbara Bruns set out to find a rigorously evaluated pilot whose evidence had led to a program at scale. It wasn’t easy.
WORKING PAPER

Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule? - Working Paper 492
Martin Ravallion
August 16, 2018
The rising popularity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in development applications has come with continuing debates on the pros and cons of this approach. The paper revisits the issues.
CGD NOTE

Knowledge or its Adoption?
Lant Pritchett
August 06, 2018
I argue that we did learn two very important things from growth research, and these were learned from research in the strong sense that they changed people’s views from a previous view that was incorrect.