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Against Excessive Rhetoric in Impact Assessment: Overstating the Case for Randomised Controlled Experiments.

The recent attention afforded to randomisation, or Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), in impact assessment is a welcome development. The case for RCTs in international development, however, has been quite overstated. This article critically examines the seminal model underlying RCTs, the Holland-Rubi...

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Published in:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 47; no. 11; pp. 1619 - 1636
Main Author: Shaffer, Paul
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2011
Subjects:
Trials (Law)
Legal claims
Causation (Philosophy)
Inference (Logic)
Evaluation
Question (Logic)
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