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Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

Author(s) -

Jens Ludwig,

Jeffrey R. Kling,

Sendhil Mullainathan

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.25.3.17

Subject(s) - mechanism (biology) , intervention (counseling) , value (mathematics) , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , management science , economics , psychology , medicine , epistemology , machine learning , philosophy , psychiatry

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 the 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.

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