External validity is a major challenge for experimental research. I offer a new perspective on this challenge, drawing on work on case studies and causal inference – the sort of material regularly covered in introductory methods courses in political science – to reflect on the use of...
John Rand, Finn Tarp - Oxford University Press, 2020 - Oxford, United Kingdom
This book is not yet published, expected in February 2020. When published this book will be available open access.
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam provides a comprehensive analytic contribution to a crucial topic within development economics. Based on fifteen years of...
Arkebe Oqubay - UNU-WIDER, 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
Deepak Nayyar — economist, thinker, leading scholar — has written yet another splendid book. Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development, together with the excellent Asian Transformations: An Inquiry into the Development of Nations (2019), recently edited by Nayyar, and an earlier path-...
– Takeaways from the first UNU-WIDER Summer School
Khadijat Amolegbe - UNU-WIDER, 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
As an applied economist working as a lecturer and researcher in Nigeria, opportunities to learn and exchange ideas with peers can be few and far between. Researchers in the Global South, like myself, are often quite isolated with limited opportunities to engage with researchers at the top of our...
– Are Factors Outside Individual Responsibility Persistent Over Time?
Rajius Idzalika, Maria C. Lo Bue - The Journal of Development Studies, 2020 - London, United KIngdom
This article is on early view/in press, available on open access.
Not all sources of inequality in educational achievements are fair. But how strong and persistent is the burden of unequal opportunities that each person carries on in their life?
In this paper, we define individual...
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