Trying to do more Good than Harm in Policy and Practice: The Role of Rigorous, Transparent, Up-to-Date Evaluations

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The power few: experimental criminology and the reduction of harm (2007, background): “Absent any other widely accepted means of creating unbiased estimates of treatment effects ( Chalmers 2003 ), the only way we can be sure that treatments do not harm people is to subject those practices to randomized controlled experiments in field settings.”
The Myth of Evidence-Based Practice: Towards Evidence-Informed Practice (2011, unknown): “With many others (e.g. Chalmers, 2003, 2005; Culyer and Lomas, 2006; Epstein, 2009; McSherry et al. , 2002; Pawson et al. , 2003; Wolpert et al. , 2006), we seek to defend a comprehensive conception of practice as informed by but not adequately based on evidence.”
Measuring the economic and social impacts of local authority events (2005, methodology): “These were therefore incorporated into the field research after considering related methods discussed in social science literature (Barnes et al., 2003; Chalmers, 2003; Sirgy and Cornwell, 2001; Thurston and Potvin, 2003).”