"Why don’t we see many more policy experiments? When confronted with this question, policymakers often point to voters."
💬 Check out the first of our new comment series on the future of evidence-based policy, with Prof Robert Dur.
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/the-fut...
20.03.2025 17:01 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?
Abstract. In many public policy areas, randomised policy experiments can greatly contribute to our knowledge of the effects of policies and can thus help t
Randomized policy experiments are often assumed to be hard, expensive (financially and politically), and disliked by voters...
"Collecting survey data representative of the Dutch electorate, we find clear evidence contradicting this view."
doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...
04.02.2025 18:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I made a list of Dutch economists. Nice to follow for:
- journos (@marikestellinga.bsky.social, @mathijsbouman.nl etc)
- policy ( @wbcs99twit.bsky.social, @lukkezen.bsky.social)
- academics ( @robertdur.bsky.social, @basvdklaauw.bsky.social)
DM me if you want to be added!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
22.11.2024 09:32 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 5
Policy evaluation and the causal analysis of public support
Support for initially unpopular policies may grow over time
🔥 Exciting New Article in Science 🔥
"Policy Evaluation and the Causal Analysis of Public Support"
By Carattini, List, and @robertdur.bsky.social
science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🚀📊
#Economics #PublicAdministration #Policy
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
18.11.2024 10:16 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Policy evaluation and the causal analysis of public support
Support for initially unpopular policies may grow over time
In this week's issue of Science, Stefano Carattini, John List, and I argue that policy evaluation should be combined with causal analysis of public support: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
01.11.2024 15:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Who’s Afraid of Policy Experiments?*
Abstract. In many public policy areas, randomized policy experiments can greatly contribute to our knowledge of the effects of policies and can thus help t
Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?
Our paper -- which has now been accepted 🎉 for publication in The Economic Journal -- shows that voters strongly support randomized policy experiments, and particularly so when they do not hold a strong opinion about the policy.
academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
21.10.2024 10:26 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
De stad kleurt groen: het Economie Festival komt eraan!
Eind juni een weekend lang debatten, lezingen, films, een talkshow en live muziek. Voor iedereen met belangstelling voor economie!
Bekijk het programma en koop je kaartje of passe-partout: www.economiefestival.nl
09.06.2024 10:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Home | Economie Festival
Films, lezingen, theater en debatten in Arminius, Walhalla, KINO en LantarenVenster, ondersteund door economenvereniging KVS en Erasmus School of Economics
Kom naar het Economie Festival van vrijdag 28 juni t/m zondag 30 juni!
Een weekend lang lezingen, debatten, films, een talkshow, live muziek en een dj op verschillende locaties in het centrum van Rotterdam.
Programma en kaarten:
economiefestival.nl
09.05.2024 06:08 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Mooi interview met econoom Hélène Rey in het @fdnl.bsky.social (Rey gaf vrijdag de Tinbergen lezing van economenvereniging KVS).
30.10.2023 06:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Important meta work on public acceptance of field experiments. There is another one by @robertdur.bsky.social , Arjan Non
, Paul Prottung, and Benedetta Ricci on "Who's afraid of Policy experiments":
osf.io/yshkt/
18.10.2023 06:35 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group
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Politiek verslaggever NRC & columnist, auteur 'Mark Rutte', co-auteur ‘Dick Schoof’
Political Scientist | Associate Professor of Dutch Politics at Leiden University | Editor Acta Politica | Political Parties | Voting | Parliaments | Interest Groups | Electoral Systems | Local Politics
Global Economy News Editor @ Financial Times
Prof of Labour Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
https://sites.google.com/site/oliviermarie/
Economics and other interesting stuff
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Behavioral economists at UC Berkeley
EBRD’s Director of Research, CEPR Research Fellow, part-time Professor of Finance at KU Leuven. 🇳🇱🏳️🌈🇪🇺. Views are my own.
The Institute for Replication (I4R) works to improve the credibility of science by promoting and conducting reproductions and replications.
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Assistant Professor of Economics, U Bonn
Geboren en opgetogen Rotterdammer/ psycholoog / onafhankelijk onderzoeker / Alma Maters: Universiteit Leiden (Psychologie en Media-pedagogiek) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Doctoraat Psychologie van de stad). Fotografeert het leven zoals het is in Rotterdam.
Tinbergen Institute | Graduate school and research institute operated jointly by the Schools of Economics and Business of Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Amsterdam & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Websites: tinbergen.nl & businessdatascience.nl
Associate Professor in Economics at @EconomicsUCPH & @CEBI_UCPH | Co-Founder of Impactually | Understanding behavioral barriers to the green transition through policy experiments
Behavioral economist at NYU Abu Dhabi studying discrimination, social norms, and gender. Proud father, reluctant dog owner, daily motto: Pura Vida.
Professor of Public Economics at Hohenheim University; Affiliate CEPR, CESifo, CMI Bergen.
Ass. Prof. of Economics @TU_Muenchen
, Campus Heilbronn. Education, Public, and Behavioral Economics. Research Associate @ifo_Institute.
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Behavioral and development economist at MIT studying poverty, sleep, alcohol, mental health, and loneliness
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Munich & Deputy Director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education
www.henninghermes.com
Professor of Economics at Cornell
Co-Director at Labor Dynamics Institute
Fellow of IZA and CEPR
