To RCT or not, is not the question: Methods for policy-relevant research on gender equality

Arjan de Haan, Gillian Dowie and Jane Mariara

World Development, 2020, vol. 127, issue C

Abstract: This contribution reflects on lessons about research methods from GrOW, a large program on women's economic empowerment. GrOW encouraged multiple methods and inter-disciplinarity, and adopted experimental and quasi-experimental methods, survey data analysis, in-depth interviews, and PhotoVoice. We find that choices of and preferences for methods and measures do not lead to exclusion of complementary and other approaches – and this applied to the experimental studies as much as the others. Solution- and policy-oriented research requires combinations of methods, including demonstrating the ‘why’ as well as the ‘what’, and the capacity to do this well is not widespread.

Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X19304437
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:127:y:2020:i:c:s0305750x19304437

DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104794

Access Statistics for this article

World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes

More articles in World Development from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().