Evidence-Informed Policy

Overview

This week we change topics. We’ll start our discussion of public policy with an introduction to the evidence-informed policy movement. This movement emerges from collaborations between governments and academics using cutting-edge statistical techniques to produce more credible evidence to determine what policies work, where, and why.

The lab discusses hypothesis testing, a commonly used approach to quantify statements on whether a policy works.

Reading

• RD sections 11-13

• Bowers, Jake, and Paul F. Testa. 2019. “Better Government, Better Science: The Promise of and Challenges Facing the Evidence-Informed Policy Movement.” Annual Review of Political Science 22: 521-542

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Lab

Hypothesis testing

Due

Monday, March 4, 5 PM