I’ve guessed this is the case on ‘back of the envelope’ grounds for a while, so nice to see someone put more time into evaluating it.
It’s not true to say EAs have been blindly on board with RCTs — I’ve been saying economic policy is probably the top priority for years and plenty of people have agreed that’s likely the case. But I don’t work on poverty so unfortunately wasn’t able to take it further than that.
I’ve guessed this is the case on ‘back of the envelope’ grounds for a while, so nice to see someone put more time into evaluating it.
It’s not true to say EAs have been blindly on board with RCTs — I’ve been saying economic policy is probably the top priority for years and plenty of people have agreed that’s likely the case. But I don’t work on poverty so unfortunately wasn’t able to take it further than that.