Karthik Muralidharan, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, joined us at the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Dialogues on Political Economy to discuss designing robust RCT studies and complex government programmes, based on his co-authored Working Paper, "...
Vivek Dehejia and Rajeev Dehejia wrote a letter to the Economist arguing for caution in using randomised control trails:
"Your recent leader (“In praise of human guinea pigs”, December 12th) argues strongly in favour of using randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in public...