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1. Introduction (14.73 The Challenge of World Poverty)

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2. What is a Poverty Trap?

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3. Social Experiments: Why and How?

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5. Is There a Nutrition-Based Poverty Trap?

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6. Nutrition: The Hidden Traps

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8. Health: Low Hanging Fruit?

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9. Education: Setting the Stage

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Lecture 10: Is It Possible to Deliver Quality Education to the Poor? The Pratham-JPAL Partnership (14.73)

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Lecture 11: Education: The Man Made Trap (14.73)

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Lecture 12: (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family (14.73)

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Lecture 13: How Do Families Decide? (14.73)

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Lecture 14: Gender Discrimination (14.73)

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Lecture 15: Risk and Insurance (14.73)

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Lecture 16: Insurance (14.73)

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Lecture 17: The (Not So Simple) Economics of Lending to the Poor (14.73)

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Lecture 19: The Promise and Perils of Microfinance (14.73)

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Lecture 20: Savings (14.73)

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Lecture 21: Savings 2 (14.73)

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Lecture 22: Entrepreneurs and Workers (14.73)

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Lecture 24: Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? (14.73)

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Lecture 25: Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty?, cont. (14.73)

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Lecture 26: Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion (14.73)

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3. Social Experiments: Why and How?

Esther Duflo & Abhijit BanerjeeMIT

Professors of Economics & Nobel Laureates

1:00:42·2013·undergraduate level

This lecture, from MIT's "The Challenge of World Poverty" course, details the theoretical underpinnings and practical methodologies for designing and implementing social experiments, particularly randomized controlled trials (RCTs), in development economics.

EconomicsStatistical Learning & CausalityDevelopment EconomicsRandomized Control TrialsCausal Inference

MIT 14.73 The Challenge of World Poverty, Spring 2011

View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/14-73S11

Instructor: Esther Duflo

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