- Nature covers the rise of randomized experiments in development economics
- In VoxEU, Sebastian Galiani and co-authors summarize an experiment in Colombia which, like several other recent experiments, finds reducing the fixed costs to formalization does not do much in terms of getting informal firms to formalize.
- Andrew Gelman on reasons not to trust papers using Mechanical Turk
- Vox covers the difficulty in knowing whether policies work with a description of a study which got the public to guess which programs work or not, and found they do little better than chance – and a tough 10-question quiz where you can see how well you can guess whether U.S. programs work or not.
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