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Author: Monica Prasad
Sociologists have been quick to criticize randomized controlled trials (RCTs) but have not offered a systematic alternative approach to ameliorating poverty around which practitioners such as governments and NGOs could base their programs. This policy brief discusses three approaches within sociology that could serve as the foundations for policymaking. Each approach addresses one of the three main criticisms that are made about RCTs: that they ignore anything that cannot be randomized, that they assume without evidence that policymakers will respond to evidence, and that they cannot show the causal mechanisms underlying a program’s success or failure.
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