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Original language | English |
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Journal | Journal of Philosophical Economics |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
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Keywords
- Development Economics
- experiments
- ethics
- RCTs
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The Ethics of New Development Economics: Is the Experimental Approach to Development Economics morally wrong? / Baele, Stéphane.
In: Journal of Philosophical Economics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2013.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - The Ethics of New Development Economics: Is the Experimental Approach to Development Economics morally wrong?
AU - Baele, Stéphane
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The 2000s have witnessed the arrival and growing popularity of randomized controlled experiments (RCTs) in Development Economics. Whilst this new way of conducting research on development has unfolded important insights, the ethical challenge it provokes has not yet been systematically examined. The present article aims at filling this gap by providing the first ad hoc discussion of the moral issues that accompany the use of RCTs in Development Economics. Claiming that this new research agenda needs its own, specific set of ethical guidelines, we expose the six ethical problems that these experiments potentially provoke and that should therefore be carefully assessed by ethics committees before an RCT is launched and by scholarly journals before its results are published.
AB - The 2000s have witnessed the arrival and growing popularity of randomized controlled experiments (RCTs) in Development Economics. Whilst this new way of conducting research on development has unfolded important insights, the ethical challenge it provokes has not yet been systematically examined. The present article aims at filling this gap by providing the first ad hoc discussion of the moral issues that accompany the use of RCTs in Development Economics. Claiming that this new research agenda needs its own, specific set of ethical guidelines, we expose the six ethical problems that these experiments potentially provoke and that should therefore be carefully assessed by ethics committees before an RCT is launched and by scholarly journals before its results are published.
KW - Development Economics
KW - experiments
KW - ethics
KW - RCTs
M3 - Article
VL - 7
JO - Journal of Philosophical Economics
JF - Journal of Philosophical Economics
SN - 1843-2298
IS - 1
ER -