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Cory Smith Profile picture
Cory Smith
@politicory
On the economics job market this year at (@MITEcon)! https://t.co/7hWP6LhWdY RTs are citations
Oct 20, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
With the (*extremely* well-deserved) econ Nobel given to Duflo, Banerjee, and Kremer for pioneering RCTs in development economics, there's been a resurgence of RCT pushback pieces. As a development economist who does NOT use RCTs, I've found these critiques quite strange tbh Here's one of the better pieces of this (others I've seen have frankly been petty and mean-spirited)
afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/wha…