Social Experiments To Fight Poverty

Here is a TED talk that J-PAL researcher and MIT professor Esther Duflo gave in 2010. Duflo shows how she uses Randomized Controlled Trials (see the blog entry of April 11) to find out which policy measures work to alleviate poverty in underdeveloped regions of the world.

 

 

About CTED

CTED, as part of the New York University Abu Dhabi Research Grant, is a multidisciplinary research lab that focuses on combining economic principles, technological advances, and human-centric design to create innovative solutions for the problems experienced in emerging regions.
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