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 ...

Randomized, evidence-based trials, long required for new drugs, are now underway for government policy initiatives. By Amy Finkelstein Facing an urgent need to determine whether new coronavirus ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducted a two-year study on the efficacy of workplace wellness programs and found that ...