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Learning from the experiments that didn't happen: Part II

Markus Goldstein's picture

In our post on Monday, we discussed a paper (joint with F Campos, A Coville, and A Fernandes) where we lay out our failures to evaluate a number of matching grant programs in Africa.   In terms of background, for those of you who missed it, matching grant programs are government co-financing (typically 50 percent) for the costs of a firm purchasing bu

Learning from the experiments that didn’t happen: Part I

David McKenzie's picture

In the spirit of learning from failure, we thought we’d start the New Year by discussing lessons from a series of attempts to implement randomized experiments that ultimately were not implemented. There is ongoing discussion about the need for a trial registry to ensure that all studies that are undertaken end up being reported on.