TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karlan,Dean
AU  - Appel,Jacob
TI  - Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong 
SN  - 9780691161891
AV  - Q180.55.M4 
U1  - 001.42 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Research
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Methodology
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Poultry Loan
KW  - RCT design
KW  - administrative data
KW  - application process
KW  - bad timing
KW  - bloated surveys
KW  - business training
KW  - child health
KW  - competing priorities
KW  - credit-to-savings intervention
KW  - data collection tools
KW  - data collection
KW  - development field studies
KW  - development tool
KW  - educational supplements
KW  - electronic data collection
KW  - evaluations
KW  - evidence
KW  - experimental design
KW  - failed projects
KW  - failed research
KW  - failure
KW  - field projects
KW  - field research
KW  - field study
KW  - financial education program
KW  - financial literacy
KW  - group-based savings
KW  - guarantor requirement
KW  - health insurance policy
KW  - immature product
KW  - insurance
KW  - intake process
KW  - interest rate
KW  - intervention
KW  - low participation rates
KW  - low participation
KW  - measurement tools
KW  - microfinance institution
KW  - microloans
KW  - participation rates
KW  - partner organization challenges
KW  - partner organization
KW  - partner organizations
KW  - pilot
KW  - policy
KW  - poultry farming
KW  - power
KW  - randomization
KW  - randomized controlled trials
KW  - research setting
KW  - research studies
KW  - research
KW  - researchers
KW  - sample size calculations
KW  - savings
KW  - staff capacity
KW  - staff flexibility
KW  - survey design
KW  - survey questions
KW  - survey
KW  - surveying
KW  - technical design flaw
KW  - technical design flaws
KW  - technical design
KW  - technology
KW  - theory
KW  - timing problem
KW  - treatment
KW  - youth clubs
KW  - youth savings
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Why Failures? --; Part I. Leading Causes of Research Failures --; 1 Inappropriate Research Setting --; 2 Technical Design Flaws --; 3 Partner Organization Challenges --; 4 Survey and Measurement Execution Problems --; 5 Low Participation Rates --; Part II. Case Studies --; 6 Credit and Financial Literacy Training: No Delivery Means No Impact --; 7 Interest Rate Sensitivity: Ignoring the Elephant in the Room --; 8 Youth Savings: Real Money Drumming up Fake People --; 9 Poultry Loans: Trying to Fly without a Pilot --; 10 Child Health and Business Training with Credit: No Such Thing as a Simple Study --; 11 Bundling Credit and Insurance: Turns Out More Is Less --; Conclusion --; Appendix. Checklist for Avoiding Failures --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 Appel delve into the common causes of failure in field research, so that researchers might avoid similar pitfalls in future work.Drawing on the experiences of top social scientists working in developing countries, this book delves into failed projects and helps guide practitioners as they embark on their research. From experimental design and implementation to analysis and partnership agreements, Karlan and Appel show that there are important lessons to be learned from failures at every stage. They describe five common categories of failures, review six case studies in detail, and conclude with some reflections on best (and worst) practices for designing and running field projects, with an emphasis on randomized controlled trials. There is much to be gained from investigating what has previously not worked, from misunderstandings by staff to errors in data collection.Cracking open the taboo subject of the stumbles that can take place in the implementation of research studies, Failing in the Field is a valuable "how-not-to" handbook for conducting fieldwork and running randomized controlled trials in development settings
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400883615?locatt=mode:legacy
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