Senior Lecturer -- Economics, University of Cape Town
I teach and research economics at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town. Previously I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for African Studies at Harvard University.
Randomised trials in economics: what the critics have to say
Dec 13, 2019 07:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The 2019 Nobel Prize has been awarded to three scholars for pioneering recent attempts to answer microeconomic issues in development using randomised experiments. Over the last three decades randomised trials have...
How randomised trials became big in development economics
Dec 10, 2019 05:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three researchers for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty, one which has transformed development economics. What are randomised experiments? And why...
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