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STEM foundation of Society and Human Development
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Society and Human Development rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), and a page here on how it is applied in this field.
Four pages under STEM foundation of Society and Human Development.
The methods behind the field.
- 01Social and behavioural scienceSurvey design for hard-to-reach groups · Qualitative and participatory researchSteward · Society and Human DevelopmentApplied here
- 02Causal inference and impact evaluationEvaluating cash transfers · Effects of disasters on households · Education programme evaluationSteward · Economic DevelopmentApplied here
- 03Spatial statistics and geostatisticsSmall-area poverty estimation · Vulnerability and hazard overlaySteward · Space and Earth ObservationApplied here
- 04EconometricsPoverty dynamics with panel data · Price shock incidence · Inequality decompositionSteward · Economic DevelopmentApplied here
Why human development needs this combination of methods.
Human development work combines social science for measurement and meaning, causal inference for what interventions changed, spatial statistics for small-area estimates and econometrics for welfare effects. Combined, they let the platform say not only who is vulnerable but why, and which policies reduced vulnerability in comparable places.
Human development work combines social science with causal inference, spatial statistics and econometrics.
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