IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/r/cgd/wpaper/336.html

Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix

Citations

Blog mentions

As found by EconAcademics.org, the blog aggregator for Economics research:
  1. What do 600 papers on 20 types of interventions tell us about how much impact evaluations generalize? Guest post by Eva Vivalt
    by Development Impact Guest Blogger in Development Impact on 2014-11-10 06:36:00

Citations

Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
as


Cited by:

  1. Hanushek, Eric A., 2021. "Addressing cross-national generalizability in educational impact evaluation," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
  2. Rajeev Dehejia & Cristian Pop-Eleches & Cyrus Samii, 2021. "From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(1), pages 217-243, January.
  3. Pritchett, Lant, 2024. "Investing in Human Capital in Africa: A framework for research," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
  4. Grossman, Guy & Humphreys, Macartan & Sacramone-Lutz, Gabriella, 2020. "Information Technology and Political Engagement: Mixed Evidence from Uganda," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 82(4), pages 1321-1336.
  5. James Bisbee & Rajeev Dehejia & Cristian Pop-Eleches & Cyrus Samii, 2017. "Local Instruments, Global Extrapolation: External Validity of the Labor Supply-Fertility Local Average Treatment Effect," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 35(S1), pages 99-147.
  6. Fels, Katja M., 2021. "Who nudges whom? Field experiments with public partners," Ruhr Economic Papers 906, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
  7. Crystal Fenwick & Luis Andres & Ronald Gomez-Suarez & Christian Borja-Vega & Jaime De Jesus Filho, 2018. "A Brief Summary of Global WASH Interventions," World Bank Publications - Reports 29868, The World Bank Group.
  8. Andrews, Matt & Pritchett, Lant & Woolcock, Michael, 2017. "Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198747482.
  9. Sedlmayr, Richard & Shah, Anuj & Sulaiman, Munshi, 2020. "Cash-plus: Poverty impacts of alternative transfer-based approaches," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
  10. Karthik Muralidharan & Venkatesh Sundararaman, 2013. "Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India," NBER Working Papers 19440, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Emmy De Buck & Karin Hannes & Hans Van Remoortel & Thashlin Govender & Axel Vande Veegaete & Alfred Musekiwa & Vittoria Lutje & Margaret Cargo & Hans‐Joachim Mosler & Philippe Vandekerckhove & Taryn Y, 2016. "PROTOCOL: Approaches to Promote Handwashing and Sanitation Behaviour Change in Low‐ and Middle Income Countries: A Mixed Method Systematic Review," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 12(1), pages 1-46.
  12. Florent Bedecarrats & Isabelle Guérin & François Roubaud, 2017. "L'étalon-or des évaluations randomisées : du discours de la méthode à l'économie politique," Working Papers ird-01445209, HAL.
  13. Rebecca Stone & Thomas de Hoop & Andrea Coombes & Pooja Nakamura, 2020. "What works to improve early grade literacy in Latin America and the Caribbean? A systematic review and meta‐analysis," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(1), March.
  14. Alexandra de Gendre & Jan Feld & Nicolás Salamanca & Ulf Zölitz, 2023. "Same-sex teacher effects," ECON - Working Papers 438, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised May 2024.
  15. Nadel, Sara & Pritchett, Lant, 2016. "Searching for the Devil in the Details: Learning about Development Program Design," Working Paper Series rwp16-041, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  16. Gazeaud, Jules & Ricard, Claire, 2024. "Learning effects of conditional cash transfers: The role of class size and composition," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
  17. Daido Kido, 2022. "Distributionally Robust Policy Learning with Wasserstein Distance," Papers 2205.04637, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2022.
  18. Galiani, Sebastian & Quistorff, Brian, 2024. "Assessing external validity in practice," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 78(3).
  19. Muralidharan, Karthik & Das, Jishnu & Holla, Alaka & Mohpal, Aakash, 2017. "The fiscal cost of weak governance: Evidence from teacher absence in India," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 116-135.
  20. Das, Ashis & Friedman, Jed & Kandpal, Eeshani, 2014. "Does involvement of local NGOs enhance public service delivery ? cautionary evidence from a Malaria-prevention evaluation in India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6931, The World Bank.
  21. Esterling, Kevin & Brady, David & Schwitzgebel, Eric, 2021. "The Necessity of Construct and External Validity for Generalized Causal Claims," OSF Preprints 2s8w5, Center for Open Science.
  22. Esterling, Kevin M. & Brady, David & Schwitzgebel, Eric, 2023. "The Necessity of Construct and External Validity for Generalized Causal Claims," I4R Discussion Paper Series 18, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
  23. Lant Pritchett & Justin Sandefur, 2015. "Learning from Experiments When Context Matters," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 105(5), pages 471-475, May.
  24. Hunt Allcott, 2012. "Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation," NBER Working Papers 18373, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  25. Ashis Das & Jed Friedman & Eeshani Kandpal, 2018. "Does involvement of local NGOs enhance public service delivery? Cautionary evidence from a malaria‐prevention program in India," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(1), pages 172-188, January.
  26. Reidpath, Daniel D. & Allotey, Pascale & Barker, S. Fiona & Clasen, Thomas & French, Matthew & Leder, Karin & Ramirez-Lovering, Diego & Rhule, Emma L.M. & Siri, José, 2022. "Implementing “from here to there”: A case study of conceptual and practical challenges in implementation science," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 301(C).
  27. Florent Bédécarrats & Isabelle Guérin & François Roubaud, 2015. "The gold standard for randomized evaluations: from discussion of method to political economy," Working Papers DT/2015/01, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
  28. Corduneanu-Huci, Cristina & Dorsch, Michael T. & Maarek, Paul, 2021. "The politics of experimentation: Political competition and randomized controlled trials," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(1), pages 1-21.
  29. Muller, Sean, 2014. "Randomised trials for policy: a review of the external validity of treatment effects," SALDRU Working Papers 127, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
  30. Simon Walker & Aimee Fox & James Altunkaya & Tim Colbourn & Mike Drummond & Susan Griffin & Nils Gutacker & Paul Revill & Mark Sculpher, 2022. "Program Evaluation of Population- and System-Level Policies: Evidence for Decision Making," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 42(1), pages 17-27, January.
  31. Emmy De Buck & Karin Hannes & Hans Van Remoortel & Thashlin Govender & Axel Vande Veegaete & Alfred Musekiwa & Vittoria Lutje & Margaret Cargo & Hans‐Joachim Mosler & Philippe Vandekerckhove & Taryn Y, 2016. "PROTOCOL: Approaches to Promote Handwashing and Sanitation Behaviour Change in Low‐ and Middle Income Countries: A Mixed Method Systematic Review," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 12(1), pages 1-46.
  32. Clive Bell & Lyn Squire, 2017. "Providing Policy Makers with Timely Advice: The Timeliness-Rigor Trade-off," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 31(2), pages 553-569.
  33. Onur Altindag & Theodore J. Joyce & Julie A. Reeder, 2015. "Effects of Peer Counseling to Support Breastfeeding: Assessing the External Validity of a Randomized Field Experiment," NBER Working Papers 21013, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  34. Castaing, Pauline & Gazeaud, Jules, 2025. "Do index insurance programs live up to their promises? Aggregating evidence from multiple experiments," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).
  35. Ngoc Thi Minh Tran & Michael P. Cameron & Jacques Poot, 2019. "What are migrants willing to pay for better home country institutions?," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 12(3), pages 257-268, December.
  36. Florent Bédécarrats & Isabelle Guérin & François Roubaud, 2019. "All that Glitters is not Gold. The Political Economy of Randomized Evaluations in Development," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 50(3), pages 735-762, May.
  37. Wayne Aaron Sandholtz, 2023. "The Politics of Public Service Reform: Experimental Evidence from Liberia," CESifo Working Paper Series 10633, CESifo.
  38. Obie Porteous, 2022. "Research Deserts and Oases: Evidence from 27 Thousand Economics Journal Articles on Africa," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 84(6), pages 1235-1258, December.
  39. Pieterse, Pieternella, 2020. "Does the RCT tail wag the implementation dog?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
  40. Steinert, Janina I. & Zenker, Juliane & Filipiak, Ute & Movsisyan, Ani & Cluver, Lucie D. & Shenderovich, Yulia, 2018. "Do saving promotion interventions increase household savings, consumption, and investments in Sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review and meta-analysis," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 238-256.
  41. Carinne Brody & Thomas de Hoop & Martina Vojtkova & Ruby Warnock & Megan Dunbar & Padmini Murthy & Shari L. Dworkin, 2015. "Economic Self‐Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(1), pages 1-182.
IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.