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Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations / Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ludwig, Jens.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17062.
- NBER working paper series no. w17062
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- Randomized controlled trials are increasingly used to evaluate policies. How can we make these experiments as useful as possible for policy purposes? We argue greater use should be made of experiments that identify behavioral mechanisms that are central to clearly specified policy questions, what we call "mechanism experiments." These types of experiments can be of great policy value even if the intervention that is tested (or its setting) does not correspond exactly to any realistic policy option.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2011.
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