Failing in the Field (eBook)
176 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8361-5 (ISBN)
Dean Karlan is professor of economics at Yale University and president of Innovations for Poverty Action. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jacob Appel previously worked with Innovations for Poverty Action, and is currently pursuing his MPA at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Karlan and Appel are the coauthors of More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty.
A revealing look at the common causes of failures in randomized control experiments during field reseach-and how to avoid themAll across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. While much has been gained from the successes of randomized controlled trials, stories of failed projects often do not get told. In Failing in the Field, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel delve into the common causes of failure in field research, so that researchers might avoid similar pitfalls in future work.Drawing on the experiences of top social scientists working in developing countries, this book delves into failed projects and helps guide practitioners as they embark on their research. From experimental design and implementation to analysis and partnership agreements, Karlan and Appel show that there are important lessons to be learned from failures at every stage. They describe five common categories of failures, review six case studies in detail, and conclude with some reflections on best (and worst) practices for designing and running field projects, with an emphasis on randomized controlled trials. There is much to be gained from investigating what has previously not worked, from misunderstandings by staff to errors in data collection.Cracking open the taboo subject of the stumbles that can take place in the implementation of research studies, Failing in the Field is a valuable "e;how-not-to"e; handbook for conducting fieldwork and running randomized controlled trials in development settings.
Dean Karlan is professor of economics at Yale University and president of Innovations for Poverty Action. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jacob Appel previously worked with Innovations for Poverty Action, and is currently pursuing his MPA at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Karlan and Appel are the coauthors of More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.9.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 line illus. |
| Verlagsort | Princeton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| Schlagworte | administrative data • Application process • Attendance • Auditing (Scientology) • bad timing • bank run • bloated surveys • Budget • business training • Buy-in • Calculation • cash transfers • checklist • Child Health • Churn Rate • Cognitive Bias • competing priorities • Consideration • credit-to-savings intervention • Curriculum • Customer • customer base • Dartmouth College • data collection • Data Collection Tools • Dean Karlan • debt • developed country • Development Economics • development field studies • development tool • Disease • Drinking Water • DVD • educational supplements • Effectiveness • efficacy • electronic data collection • Employment • Esther Duflo • Evaluations • Evidence • Expense • Experimental Design • failed projects • failed research • Failure • field projects • field research • Field study • financial education program • financial literacy • Financial Services • Finding • Fraud • Funding • Gaming the system • group-based savings • guarantor requirement • Guideline • Health insurance policy • Healthy Skepticism • High Frequency • His Family • Household • human subject research • immature product • impact evaluation • implementation • Incentive • income • insurance • insurance policy • intake process • Interest Rate • International Development • Intervention • Investment • it works • Laptop • Loan Officer • low participation • low participation rates • Marketing • Measurement • measurement tools • Meeting • Microcredit • Microfinance • microfinance institution • Microloans • moneylender • Nonprofit Organization • obstacle • optimism • organization • participant • participation rates • partner organization • partner organization challenges • partner organizations • Payment • Pilot • Policy • Portion • poultry farming • Poultry Loan • Poverty trap • Power • quality control • Radio-Frequency Identification • Random assignment • Randomization • Randomized Controlled Trials • RCT design • receipt • remedial education • remittance • repayment • Requirement • Research • Research assistant • Researchers • research setting • research studies • Respondent • result • Risk Management • Sample Size • Sample size calculations • saving • Savings • savings account • Scale-up • Security question • Senior Management • Social Science • staff capacity • staff flexibility • statistical power • Subsidy • Supervisor • Survey • Survey Design • Surveying • survey questions • technical design • technical design flaw • technical design flaws • Technology • theory • theory of change • The Various • timing problem • Trade-off • Treatment • Treatment and control groups • Unsecured debt • Wealth • wrinkle • Yale University • Youth club • youth clubs • youth savings |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4008-8361-X / 140088361X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4008-8361-5 / 9781400883615 |
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