Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong
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Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong
By (Author) Dean Karlan
By (author) Jacob Appel
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
2nd January 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Research methods: general
330.072
Physical Properties
Hardback
176
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
28g
Description
All across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. While much has been gained from the successes of randomized controlled trials, stories of failed projects often do not get told. In Failing in the Field, Dean Karlan and Jacob A
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"Highly recommended."--Karen Shook, Times Higher Education
Author Bio
Dean Karlan is professor of economics at Yale University and president of Innovations for Poverty Action. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jacob Appel previously worked with Innovations for Poverty Action, and is currently pursuing his MPA at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Karlan and Appel are the coauthors of More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty.
