Scaling
When Scaling Goes Wrong
John List’s The Voltage Effect offers advice for companies looking to hit it big, but does the endless pursuit of scale produce more harm than good?
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Measurement & Evaluation - Book Reviews
New ways to measure and evaluate the impact an organization’s work has on society
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Education
Learning Isn’t an Algorithm
Failure to Disrupt details the promise and pitfalls of technology in the remote classroom.
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Measurement & Evaluation
Experimentation and Its Discontents
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.
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Technology
The Technology Treadmill
Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson’s Ingenious applies concepts and metaphors from evolutionary biology to explain the impact of technological innovation on human life. A book review from the Spring 2020 issue.
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Measurement & Evaluation
How to Measure and Manage Performance
The book presents a thought-provoking framework for categorizing and implementing performance management strategies based on the causal relationship between an organization’s activities and outcomes and on its control over those outcomes. A book review from the Winter 2020 issue.
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Measurement & Evaluation
Solving Social Problems “One Coin Toss at a Time”
Andrew Leigh’s Randomistas: How radical researchers are changing our world celebrates the triumphs of RCTs.
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Education
Learning From Each Other
Experienced educators provide guidance for those wishing to create and maintain effective partnerships between researchers and educators.
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Economic Development
The Closer You Look, the Worse It Seems
New research details how US families struggle with unstable income not just from year to year but even from week to week.
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Measurement & Evaluation
What’s in a Measure?
International metrics on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking aren’t nearly as objective as they seem. But they still have their uses.
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Government
Nuance in Government
A leading public intellectual, fresh from government service, explores the complexities of cost-benefit analysis.