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Evidence-based policymaking. Those in the academic and think tank worlds all say they want to do it, but aren’t quite sure how. We can all agree that for evidence-based policymaking you need evidence, but you also need to “make it easy” to use that evidence, as behavioral economist Richard Thaler would say.
Evidence we have – IPA has done 600-plus randomized evaluations, more than 50 in education alone. We even have summaries of evidence highlighting education policy lessons emerging from multiple studies, such...