Dean Karlan has had his own share of failures, many of which he chronicles in his new book Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong. Listen to a podcast interview with Karlan about the book, published this fall by Princeton University Press.

“When we are out there in the field trying new ways of collecting data, if we don’t collect our failures on the research process, we’re not going to learn as well as we could…We’re all going to do better in the way we do research if we’re a little more open about learning from our failures.”

-Dean Karlan