In The Power of Experiments, Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman examine the growing reliance on the scientific method in shaping market and policy decisions. A book review in the Summer 2020 issue.
Andrew Leigh’s Randomistas: How radical researchers are changing our world celebrates the triumphs of RCTs.
The Trump administration wants to ban terms like “evidence-based” from government reporting. But if policymakers can’t make budget and policy decisions based on evidence, what, exactly, is supposed to guide them?
The rigorous use of data to guide social funding decisions is essential, but to do it well, we need to broaden the evidence base, focus on principles of practice, and embrace adaptive integration over fidelity.
The tide that has swept experimental program evaluation to the forefront of knowledge building about social policy is suddenly ebbing.
Defining credible evidence has polarized into two camps that must be brought together to tackle social problems effectively.
When philanthropists fund programmatic interventions, they should resist the seduction of certainty.
