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Robert Dur

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"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...

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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...
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
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🔥 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/...
Policy evaluation and the causal analysis of public support
Support for initially unpopular policies may grow over time
science.org
robertdur.bsky.social
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/...
Policy evaluation and the causal analysis of public support
Support for initially unpopular policies may grow over time
www.science.org
robertdur.bsky.social
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...
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
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robertdur.bsky.social
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
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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:
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Home | Economie Festival
Films, lezingen, theater en debatten in Arminius, Walhalla, KINO en LantarenVenster, ondersteund door economenvereniging KVS en Erasmus School of Economics
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Mooi interview met econoom Hélène Rey in het @fdnl.bsky.social (Rey gaf vrijdag de Tinbergen lezing van economenvereniging KVS).
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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":

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