What Works in Development? Evaluating the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs
Esther Duflo
Thu Jan 27, 01-04:00pm, E51-376
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
We discuss the work of MIT's Poverty Action Lab--a center devoted to providing rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of different approaches to poverty reduction. We discuss the surprising lack of evidence and the flaws in many evaluations of social programs . We willl present ways to measure more accurately the impact of these programs. In particular, with example drawn from all over the world, we discuss the role of randomized evaluations estimate the effectiveness of a program by comparing outcomes of randomly assigned treatment and comparison groups.
Contact: Theresa Benevento, E52-274, x3-8883, theresa@mit.edu
Sponsor: Economics
Latest update: 27-Oct-2004
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