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Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton is at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. He is also associated with the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Randomized control trials are a useful tool in development economics. But RCTs are not a gold standard; like other tools they face problems of inference, they cannot claim to have established…