{"id":12194,"date":"2017-01-10T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=12194"},"modified":"2017-01-09T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:08:10","slug":"new-book-on-randomized-controlled-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/12194","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Conversations: New Book on Randomized Controlled Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are interested in the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in\u00a0economics&#8211;particularly in development economics&#8211;Timothy Ogden has a new book out titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0262035103\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=marfbel-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0262035103&amp;linkId=910c6901ca5e885f891a7523ac3878dc\">Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I am preparing a longer review that should see the light of day in the near future, but in the meantime, the book features a series of conversations with prominent economists&#8211;from Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo to Angust Deaton, and from Jonathan Morduch to David McKenzie&#8211;not only about the advantages and disadvantages of RCTs, but also about the past, present, and future of RCTs.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not already familiar with his work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/timothyogden\">Timothy Ogden<\/a> is the managing director of the Financial Access Initiative at NYU, and he is the editor in chief of <em>Philanthropy Action<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are interested in the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in\u00a0economics&#8211;particularly in development economics&#8211;Timothy Ogden has a new book out titled Experimental Conversations:&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/12194\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Experimental Conversations: New Book on Randomized Controlled Trials<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-3aG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12197,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions\/12197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}