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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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14.11 is a new class on the topic of field (that is, 'in situ') and laboratory experiments in the social sciences - both what these experiments have taught and can teach us and how to conduct them.
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- economics
- racial discrimination
- public health and persuasion
- incentives
- gender differences in economic environments
- intrinsic motivation and fairness
- educational quality
- corruption
- learning and social effects
- housing experiments
- voting behavior and political economy
- jury advocacy
- causal inference
- internal and external threats
- clustering
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, and are hopeful that economists might have something useful to say about this challenge. The questions we will take up include: Is extreme poverty a thing of the past? What is economic life like when living under a dollar per day? W
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- economics
- developing countries
- child labor
- randomized evaluations
- poverty and economic growth
- microfinance
- world bank and imf
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Topics include productivity effects of health, private and social returns to education, education quality, education policy and market equilibrium, gender discrimination, public finance, decision making within families, firms and contracts, technology, labor and migration, land, and the markets for credit and savings.
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- economics
- productivity
- health
- education
- market equilibrium
- gender discrimination
- public finance
- decision making
- families
- firms
- contracts
- technology
- labor
- migration
- land
- credit
- savings
- poverty
- inequality
- nutrition
- school choice
- school vouchers
- subsidies
- taxes
- employment
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This five-day program on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one's own evaluation. While the course focuses on randomized evaluations, many of the topics, such as measuring outcomes and dealing with threats to the validity of an evaluation, are relevant for other methodologies.
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- supplemental resources
- randomized evaluation
- measuring impact
- power calculations
- sample size
- cost effectiveness
- outcomes
- indicators
- policy makers
- program evaluation
- evaluation design
- theory of change
- control population
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