RCTs

Conditional cash transfers in Nicaragua during primary school led to higher schooling and earnings in adulthood, but mechanisms differed by sex

Financial inclusion programmes must be designed to ensure that women can act with financial independence

Training deputy ministers in the school of thought associated with the credibility revolution increases demand for and responsiveness to causal evidence

Programmes aimed at alleviating poverty must be designed in cost-effective ways before they can be used by government as viable public policy at scale

Adaptive sampling has the potential to ensure that experiments better meet the learning goals of policymakers and are more beneficial to participants at the same time

Long-term results from a cash grant programme in Uganda suggests that poverty may be bigger than the issues these types of programmes can address

RCTs have revolutionised development policy, but do the interventions that work in the short run have a benefit 10 or 20 years later?

The Nobel nomination’s emphasis on the practical applications of Banerjee’s, Duflo’s and Kremer’s methods represents a monumental and welcome change

Why have Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics? And what does this mean for development economics?