# Social experiments to fight poverty

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2010
- Speaker: Esther Duflo
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_duflo_social_experiments_to_fight_poverty)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid's impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it's possible to know which development efforts help and which hurt -- by testing solutions with randomized trials.

## Lectures

1. [Social experiments to fight poverty](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/esther_duflo_social_experiments_to_fight_poverty/28d056db0112), 17 min (TED's player)