In response to my previous post, Avi Feller sent me these links related to efforts promoting the use of RCTs and evidence-based approaches for policymaking:
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The theme of this year’s just-concluded APPAM conference (the national public policy research organization) was “evidence-based policymaking,” with a headline panel on using experiments in policy (see here and here).
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Jeff Liebman has written extensively about the use of randomized experiments in policy (see here for a recent interview).
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The White House now has an entire office devoted to running randomized trials to improve government performance (the so-called “nudge unit”). Check out their recent annual report here.
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JPAL North America just launched a major initiative to help state and local governments run randomized trials (see here).