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The Department of Social Policy and Intervention is a multidisciplinary centre of excellence for research and teaching in social policy and the development and systematic evaluation of social interventions.

Department Of Social Policy And Intervention

Part of the Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-2023
Speaker: Lant Pritchett

Violet Butler Room University of Oxford - Social Policy and Social Intervention

Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23

The Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford presents the Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022/23.

-﻿- The captioned recording of this seminar can now be found on our YouTube channel, <a href="https://youtu.be/Uh9-nIsH68E" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HERE</a>.- -The event will be hybrid with the option to attend in person at the Department of Social Policy &amp; Intervention, Barnett House, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2ER.The event will also be live-streamed via Zoom.Registration closes at 14.00 on the day of the seminar. If you are registering to join online, a Zoom link will be sent prior to the event.Professor Lant Pritchett, Director, Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, will be speaking as part of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention's Michaelmas Term Seminar Series.Within development economics there has been enormous attention on generating “rigorous” evidence about the causal impacts of various “interventions” in order to find out “what works”. Despite its rhetorical attractiveness, in practice this agenda is plagued with deep underlying logical and theoretical problems, and the challenges of construct validity and external validity. The downsides to the bias induced in the research agenda are so severe as to call into question whether the entire endeavour has, on net, had positive impact. This talk will focus on research about education over the last decade or so to provide illustrations of the positives and negatives of the “randomista revolution” in development economics.T﻿his seminar is convened by Dr Benjamin Chrisinger and will be followed by a Q&A.

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