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 ...

The U.S. health care system is often inefficient, ineffective, and inequitable. Compared to other high-income countries, the U.S. pays more for health care and has worse outcomes. One potentially ...

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, ...

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 ...

When a randomized evaluation finds null results, it is important to understand why. We investigated two very different explanations for the finding from a randomized evaluation that the Camden ...

The authors present findings of a randomized evaluation of Medicaid patients at an academic medical center, which found that intensive care management was associated with reduced total medical expense ...

Rigorous impact evaluations have become increasingly important to guide the direction and scaling of social impact programs. In 2000, only 39 impact evaluations of work performed in low- and ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help optimize decision-making in high-stakes settings. For instance, an ...