A Debate that Fatigues…: To Randomise or Not to Randomise; What’s the Real Question?

Ralitza Dimova ()
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Ralitza Dimova: University of Manchester

The European Journal of Development Research, 2019, vol. 31, issue 2, No 2, 163-168

Abstract: Abstract This commentary reviews key arguments on both sides of a heated methodological debate that has dominated the development economics literature for more than a decade now. It argues that the debate is increasingly fatiguing and tends to overemphasise (empirical) methodological peculiarities at the expense of conceptual issues, the resolution of which is crucial for successful policy making.

Keywords: Randomised controlled trials; Instrumental variables; Conceptual debate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1057/s41287-019-00198-3

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