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How the cases you choose affect the answers you get, revisited

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The authors argue that single experiments in this area are often essentially single case studies and that generalizing from them suffers from the same (well-established) problems of generalising from all single case-studies.
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This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2020-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: External validity.

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Nobel Rebels in Disguise — Assessing the Rise and Rule of the Randomistas

TL;DR: Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were awarded the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their pioneering of randomized control trials as mentioned in this paper.
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Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research

TL;DR: For instance, King, Keohane, Verba, and Verba as mentioned in this paper have developed a unified approach to valid descriptive and causal inference in qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable.
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Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method

TL;DR: This paper is a systematic analysis of the comparative method, and it is argued that the case study method is closely related to theComparison method.
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Women as policy makers: evidence from a randomized policy experiment in india

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions and found that women invest more in infrastructure that is directly relevant to the needs of their own genders.
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Female leadership raises aspirations and educational attainment for girls: a policy experiment in India.

TL;DR: It is shown that female leadership influences adolescent girls’ career aspirations and educational attainment and no evidence of changes in young women’s labor market opportunities is found, which suggests that the impact of women leaders primarily reflects a role model effect.
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How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics?

The paper discusses how the selection of cases in experimental research can affect the generalizability of the findings.

How the cases you choose affect the answers you get: selection bias on comparative politics?

The selection of cases in comparative politics can lead to selection bias and affect the answers obtained from research.