Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - In: Revue d'économie politique 119 (2009) 5, pp. 691-726
<alinea/> Randomized experiments have become a popular tool in development economics research and have been the subject of a number of criticisms. This paper reviews the recent literature and discusses the strengths and limitations of this approach in theory and in practise. We argue that the main virtue...