Why Randomize?

In a world with limited resources, decision-makers in government and other organizations must decide which social programs to invest in.
A good place to start is by measuring impact: How well do these programs work?
Randomized evaluations make it possible to understand the causal impact of an intervention: In other words, what specific changes to participants’ lives can be directly attributed to the program itself?
The 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was awarded to J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee
and Esther Duflo and longtime J-PAL affiliate Michael Kremer in recognition of how this research method has transformed the field of social policy and economic development.
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