What Role for Qualitative Methods in Randomized Experiments?
What Role for Qualitative Methods in Randomized Experiments?
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定性方法在随机实验中起什么作用？
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2009
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Laura Camfield
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Martin Prowse;Laura Camfield
在国际发展中关于随机实验的激烈辩论一直缓慢地接受定性方法在研究设计中的作用。虽然有一些例子，如何“实地考察？尽管对上下文的描述性分析可以对定量方法起补充作用，但很少注意到允许定性方法起主要作用的随机实验的可能性。本文评估了一系列定性方法是否会损害随机实验的内部和外部有效性标准。它表明，生活史访谈具有其他定性方法的优势，并提供了一种替代传统的调查工具。
The vibrant debate on randomized experiments within international development has been slow to accept a role for qualitative methods within research designs. Whilst there are examples of how „field visits? or descriptive analyses of context can play a complementary, but secondary, role to quantitative methods, little attention has been paid to the possibility of randomized experiments that allow a primary role to qualitative methods. This paper assesses whether a range of qualitative methods compromise the internal and external validity criteria of randomized experiments. It suggests that life history interviews have advantages over other qualitative methods, and offers one alternative to the conventional survey tool.