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March 2017
Do Vouchers Lead to Greater Learning? Depends Where (and When) You Look
March 31, 2017
By Austin Nichols
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At the center of the current education policy debate is the use of school vouchers to directly pay for children to attend whichever school they want. But what is the evidence on their effectiveness?
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Categories:
Education
Tags:
education,
evaluation
Want to Have an Impact on Housing Policy? Go Local!
March 27, 2017
By Jeffrey Lubell
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Local decisions affect the density at which housing can be built and the complexity, duration, and cost of the land entitlement process, which in turn affect the cost of housing.
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Categories:
Housing & Communities
Tags:
housing
The Future Of Medicaid: When Improving Upon The Wheel, Start With Something Round
March 21, 2017
By Katharine Witgert
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As states and the federal government jointly design Medicaid's future, let's include what we know works - and eliminate what does not.
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Categories:
U.S. Health
Tags:
Medicaid,
public health,
US health
A "Menu" of Policies to Improve Diets
March 13, 2017
By Jacob Alex Klerman and Lauren Olsho
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and nutrition assistance programs more broadly are intended to eliminate hunger and improve diet. What's the strongest evidence for improving the diets of SNAP participants?
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Categories:
Food Security
Tags:
nutrition,
SNAP
When Is Randomization Right for Evaluation?
March 7, 2017
By Laura R. Peck
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I advocate using randomized experiments because they provide a high level of confidence in the results. But they aren't always possible or appropriate. So what criteria should researchers use to decide when to use them?
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Categories:
Research, Monitoring & Evaluation
Tags:
evaluation,
experimental evaluation,
RCT