The challenges of scaling effective interventions: A path forward for research and policy
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Results from RCTs are not always scalable to larger, aggregated levels because market responses and spillovers are largely absent at the small scale of the experiments.
“the results from RCTs are not always scalable to larger, aggregated levels because market responses and spillovers are largely absent at the small scale of the experiments ( 44 , 45 ).”
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- Authors
- Davis, C. A., & Mobarak, A. M.
- Affiliations
- American University (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq
- Venue
- World Development
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-03
- Volume
- 127
- Pages
- 104817
- ISSN
- 0305-750X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2995154761
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 1.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- figshare.com
- Locations
- World Development (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Keywords
- scaling up interventions, randomized controlled trials, anti-poverty policy, poverty measurement, treatment effect heterogeneity, spillover effects, general equilibrium effects, implementation barriers, policy evaluation, development research, research-policy relationship
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