Finding our balance? Revisiting the randomization revolution in development economics ten years further on

Ten years ago, we offered reflections on the power and pitfalls of randomized controlled trials in development economics, arguing that the research community had lost its balance between theory, observational data and randomized experiments. We remain convinced of both the importance and the limits of RCTs for development economics research. But with another decade of RCTs under our collective belts, three issues now strike us as having become...