The first of its kind, Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical Perspective provides answers to these questions, explaining how RCTs work, what they can achieve, why they sometimes fail, how they can be improved and why other methods are both useful and necessary.
DRI regularly hosts a private development faculty discussion series. Our motivation is to increase communication among faculty working on development at NYU.
NYU's Development Research Institute will host a fascinating discussion with Ann Bernstein and Paul Romer at the Development Research Institute on Thursday, July 21st, at 3:30pm, co-sponsored by the Marron Institute of Urban Management.
DRI regularly hosts a private development faculty discussion series. Our motivation is to increase communication among faculty working on development at NYU.
Join us for a conversation with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Emerita Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as she speaks on the topic of her latest book, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World.
How can we plan to make development happen in a world where most success is unplanned? Does respecting the rights of the poor make unplanned development work better?
To find out join us for an NYU Development Research Institute event on April 6, 2016, featuring a conversation between Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge and William Easterly, author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor.
