Salvatore Di Falco on Randomized Controlled Trials for Development: Evidence from a Double-Blind Field Experiment in Tanzania

Relatore:  Salvatore Di Falco - London School of Economics
  martedì 22 maggio 2012 alle ore 12.15 Aula C, Palazzo di Economia

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the social sciences are not double-blind, so participants know they are “treated” and will adjust their behavior accordingly. We implement a conventional economic RCT and a double-blind experiment in rural Tanzania (randomly allocating modern and traditional cowpea seed-varieties to farmers), and demonstrate that these effects can be large. For our case they explain the entire “treatment effect on the treated” as measured in a conventional economic RCT.


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1 marzo 2012

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