2: Evaluations & Experiments

[Engage in] high-quality, low-cost evaluations and rapid, iterative experimentation

Other Information:

High-quality, low-cost evaluations and rapid, iterative experimentation: Proposals should help agencies improve the quality and timeliness of evaluations, for example by building evaluation into ongoing program changes; reducing costs by measuring key outcomes in existing administrative data sets; and drawing on private sector approaches that use frequent, low-cost experimentation to test strategies to improve results and return on investment. Proposals should utilize randomized controlled trials or careful quasi -experimental techniques to measure the effect of interventions on important policy outcomes. We particularly welcome proposals that draw on behavioral insights to improve results and lower costs in direct operations.

Stakeholder(s):

• Innovative Companies: Many innovative companies use rapidly conducted randomized field trials to identify high -impact innovations and move them quickly into production.


• Public Sector: In the public sector, low-cost, frequent field tests do not replace longer-term, rigorous evaluations - they supplement them.


• Innovative Administrators: They allow innovative administrators to say: "Might this help boost results? Let's try it and see if it works. "

Objective(s):

2.1: Behavioral Insights

2.2: Evaluation

2.3: Existing Programs & Datasets

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