{"id":4982,"date":"2020-09-10T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2020-11-26T01:46:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:46:12","slug":"prof-caprio-recommends-this-book-randomized-control-trials-in-the-field-of-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/content-type\/books\/prof-caprio-recommends-this-book-randomized-control-trials-in-the-field-of-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Caprio recommends this book: <i> Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development <\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n\t\tProf. Caprio recommends this book: <em> Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development <\/em>\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/randomized-control-trials-in-the-field-of-development-9780198865360?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2>book by Florent B\u00e9d\u00e9carrats, Isabelle Gu\u00e9rin, and Fran\u00e7ois Roubaud from the Oxford University Press<\/h2>\n<p>RCTs are increasingly being used to answer numerous kinds of questions in the field. In fact, in 2019, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer were awarded the Economics Noble prize for using this approach to answer many different questions concerning global poverty. This book explores the types of questions that can and cannot be answered by RCTs and the ways in which one can employ it in the field to answer numerous kinds of questions. It is written in such a way that it is accessible to both experts and laypeople.\u00a0<\/p>\n<br \/>\nYou can purchase the book at <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/randomized-control-trials-in-the-field-of-development-9780198865360?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">this link.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/announcements\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSee our announcements\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/home\/training-research-and-resources\/training\/e-learning\/by-category\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tView our online learning resources\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/professors-picks\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSee other Professors&#8217; Picks\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested in RCTs, this Oxford University Press book looks like a must read. It explores the types of questions that can and cannot be answered by RCTs and the ways in which one can employ it in the field to answer numerous kinds of questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2420,"featured_media":4981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[686,65,643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-books","category-professors-pick"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}