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#18 - Ofir Reich on using data science to end poverty & the spurious action-inaction distinction

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Are RCTs Really Replicable?

Some people have criticized randomized controlled trials as being very expensive to conduct each time and also having low generalizability. I think with respect to generalizability, there is some kind of correlation between RCTs broadly do replicate. And so if you understand that teaching at the right level to the class is very beneficial because in many developing countries,. teachers teach way above the class level, the grade level. Then this is a lesson that's more general and can be applied in different contexts.

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