#30 - Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another

<p>If we have a study on the impact of a social program in a particular place and time, how confident can we be that we’ll get a similar result if we study the same program again somewhere else?</p><p> Dr Eva Vivalt is a lecturer in the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University. She compiled a huge database of impact evaluations in global development - including 15,024 estimates from 635 papers across 20 types of intervention - to help answer this question.</p><p> Her finding: not confident at all.</p><p> The typical study result differs from...