"25% of development econ papers are RCTs" is funny in that:
1.) There's a subpopulation of people who think it's 0% ("economics isn't a science").
2.) There's a subpopulation of people who think it's >90% ("economists have to stop this obsession with causality").
Matt Darling
As a nice follow-up on Monday's post on development journals, today we have a guest post by @leightjessica.bsky.social on what development papers top journals publish: what share are RCTs? What topics are covered most? Which countries? Read on: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
