RT @christiangrose: @moritzmarbach May I suggest this article where @yesthatabbywood & I argue that governments have been using experimenta…
@moritzmarbach May I suggest this article where @yesthatabbywood & I argue that governments have been using experimentation and RCTs for a long time - even longer than most social scientists. It has lots of example of government-run experimental interv
In "Randomized Experiments by Government Institutions and American Political Development," we ask "Are the methods of causal inference and, in particular, randomized controlled trials, compatible with the study of political history?" Article here: https://
This is why modern political economy will become ever more important to inform citizens. And here is how to truly observe effects but not misidentified high flying birds. The best: thanks to online audit studies, Lin Ostrom‘s call to go into the field can