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Josh Budlender
@joshbudlender
South African Economics PhD candidate @UMassEcon. Research Fellow @SALDRU1. Areas: Labour & development. Just in case: @joshbudlender@econtwitter.net
Aug 8, 2020 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
This is outrageous - an RCT cutting off water to tenants in Nairobi "slums" to see if it induces their landlords to pay the utility bill. And reading the paper just makes it worse.
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nber.org/papers/w27569 Image One issue common for RCTs in poor countries-
no informed consent. To me this is always serious, but sometimes people justify w/ experiment "does no harm" & allows potentially nb benefits for targeted population. In this case? *Massive* harms & completely unclear benefits

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