Last week, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer accepted the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. They were recognized for their use of randomized controlled trials, also known ...

Section 1115 waivers in the Medicaid program are meant to be experiments for states to test coverage approaches that don't meet federal requirements. However, most of those evaluations fall far short, ...

One of the themes of the responses is that randomized evaluations are not the only method that can help inform policy in developing countries. We feel similarly. Our intention is to review the lessons ...

Editor’s note: This story was first published on Econofact. The Nobel Memorial prize in Economic Sciences awarded this year to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer has focused attention ...

Although we support Lisbeth B. Schorr’s call for a variety of evaluation methods to identify promising social programs (“Innovative Reforms Require Innovative Scorekeeping,” Aug. 26, 2009.), we ...

Pomeranz, Dina. "Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods." Special Issue on Expanding the Frontier of Behavioral ...

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase III Study to Assess Efficacy and Safety of Weekly Farletuzumab in Combination With Carboplatin and Taxane in Patients With Ovarian Cancer in First ...