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 ...

A new randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled clinical trial reports that a non-invasive, home-based light therapy produced measurable improvements in objective cognitive performance in adults under ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This course is compulsory on the Executive MSc in Evaluation of Health Care Interventions and Outcomes, in collaboration with NICE. This course is not available as an outside option. Randomized trials ...