Practical challenges and strategies for randomised control trials in agricultural extension and other development programmes

被引：5

作者：

Culbertson, Michael J. ^{[1
]}

McCole, Daniel ^{[2
]}

McNamara, Paul E. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Educ Psychol, Champaign, IL 61820 USA

[2] Michigan State Univ, Dept Nat Resources, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA

[3] Univ Illinois, Dept Agr & Consumer Econ, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS | 2014年 / 6卷 / 03期

关键词：

randomised control trial (RCT); impact evaluation; development evaluation; operational settings; agricultural extension; Uganda; Africa; FIDELITY;

D O I：

10.1080/19439342.2014.919339

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

Randomised control trials (RCTs) can yield information about the effectiveness of agricultural extension and other development programmes, facilitating cost-benefit analyses and policy decisions under resource constraints. However, even after RCT design questions have been settled, a number of other practical challenges to successful RCTs remain. As a guide to those interested in applying RCTs more extensively, we outline several ethical, organisational, design and field-based challenges for RCTs, along with potential strategies for mitigating the challenges. We provide illustrations from our experience of an RCT of the Community Knowledge Worker programme, a novel agricultural extension model in Uganda.

引用

页码：284 / 299

页数：16

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