Ten years ago, FAI managing director Tim Ogden published Experimental Conversations, a collection of interviews with economists and other people who critique, promote, and use randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in development economics.
One of the interviewees was Michael Kremer, a pioneer of the movement, now a Nobel laureate, and recently appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank. (Other chapters were devoted to conversations with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Rachel Glennerster, Dean Karlan, David McKenzie, Antoinette Schoar, and others.)
In Development, a new magazine of long-form essays on how progress does or does not happen in low- and middle-income countries, asked Tim to reprint the original conversation with a new introduction. Rereading it a decade on, Tim reflects on how fragile the systems for building and using evidence have proved to be, and why Kremer's questions matter even more now.
Read Tim’s reflections, and the full interview with Michael Kremer, here at In Development, which is free to read and worth subscribing to.
Ten years ago, FAI managing director Tim Ogden published Experimental Conversations, a collection of interviews with economists and other people who critique, promote, and use randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in development economics. One of the interviewees was Michael Kremer, a pioneer of the movement, now a Nobel laureate, and recently appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank.