Scholars posit that the strategic interests of the United States condition the receipt of humanitarian aid; however, we argue that the concept of strategic interests is not well defined in the literature and therefore not well operationalized. We first address this issue with a simple conceptual...

Between 1970 and the early 2000s, there was a revolution in support for the use of field experiments to evaluate social programs. Focusing on the welfare reform studies that helped to speed that transformation in the United States, this chapter describes the major challenges to implementing...