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RCTs for Policy in India, a new working paper by the Institute's senior associate Sneha P, discusses the ethical and methodological considerations when adopting randomised controlled trials for informing policy decisions in India. (1/5)
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In recent months, #EconTwitter has seen a resurgence of debate about RCTs in the global south, and this paper contributes to this discourse by situating the debate in the Indian context. (2/5)
The paper discusses RCTs for issues like corruption, livelihoods, PDS and conflict etc, and reviews concerns raised about experiments in India previously by Angus Deaton, Nancy Cartwright, Jean Drèze, Ankur Sarin, Devesh Kapur, @N_Kabeer, @bijurao and @sabya_economist etc. (3/5)
It discusses ethical considerations such as equipoise, informed consent, disclosures, data harms, human costs & methodological limitations for Indian policy-making including heterogeneity, researcher effects, policy-relevant unobservables & other political economy factors (4/5)
The paper ends with a description of alternative approaches to policy evaluations and a simple checklist for practitioners, specifically policy makers, to assess the feasibility of RCTs for informing decision making in their context. (5/5)

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