Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better

By Nancy Cartwright, J. Hardie. 2012

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Subfields: General Health Professions

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1. Angus Deaton
2. J. Aker
3. Ben R. Martin
4. Reuben Binns
5. Nancy Cartwright
6. K. Rowlingson
7. Alessandro Tarozzi

Citations in the corpus

• Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education (2013, background): “Strong effects of shortterm contracts produced in controlled experimental settings are lost in weak public institutions: NGO implementation produces a positive effect on test scores across diverse contexts, while government implementation yields zero effect.”
• From Libertarian Paternalism to Nudging—and Beyond (2015, background): “The external validity problem reappears if evidence from e.g., a field experiment in the UK is used to justify e.g., a policy intervention in Germany (Cartwright and Hardie 2012).”
• Fairer machine learning in the real world: Mitigating discrimination without collecting sensitive data (2017, background): “Even where evidence suggests good practices work in one context, they may fail elsewhere (Cartwright and Hardie, 2012).”
• Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials (2016, positive): “Consider the Rube Goldberg machine that is rigged up so that flying a kite sharpens a pencil (Cartwright and Hardie, 2012, 77).”
• Behavioural science and policy: where are we now and where are we going? (2018, background): “Again, this argument about unintended consequences is not specific to behavioural policy interventions (see Cartwright & Hardie, 2012).”
• Twenty challenges to innovation studies (2015, background): “44 In particular, it entails overcoming the fundamental problem of how one gets from knowing that a particular policy “works there” to being able to conclude that “it will work here” (see Cartwright and Hardie, 2012, and the discussion in Nightingale, 2013) 45 According to Scholz (2012), data from t”