- Acknowledgements and Disclosures
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics. We are indebted to Kholoud Alghamdi, Aeddon Burns, and Linjing He for their superb research assistance. We have benefited from helpful comments from participants at the Advances with Field Experiments conference and seminar participants at Boston University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Hong Kong. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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(In)Credible Development RCTs: False Discoveries, Low Power, and a Solution -- by Qingyuan Chai, Kevin Lang, Liang Zhong
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