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ESRC grant awarded to Dr Cassie Schwartz (£120,000), November 2020

  • Date02 February 2021

Project title: "The diffusion of development: Extending RCTs with agent-based modelling to understand spillovers of development interventions

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In November 2020 Dr Cassie Schwartz was awarded an ESRC grant of £120,000. Her project will provide transparent and thorough guidelines on appropriate experimental designs that can capture community effects; programming packages to implement the methodology in NetLogo, a free and easy-to-use ABM platform; and a user-friendly app to conduct preliminary tests and power calculations.

 

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