Last week, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer accepted the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. They were recognized for their use of randomized controlled trials, also known ...

Section 1115 waivers in the Medicaid program are meant to be experiments for states to test coverage approaches that don't meet federal requirements. However, most of those evaluations fall far short, ...

Editor’s note: This story was first published on Econofact. The Nobel Memorial prize in Economic Sciences awarded this year to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer has focused attention ...

Randomized, evidence-based trials, long required for new drugs, are now underway for government policy initiatives. By Amy Finkelstein Facing an urgent need to determine whether new coronavirus ...

The authors present findings of a randomized evaluation of Medicaid patients at an academic medical center, which found that intensive care management was associated with reduced total medical expense ...

Although we support Lisbeth B. Schorr’s call for a variety of evaluation methods to identify promising social programs (“Innovative Reforms Require Innovative Scorekeeping,” Aug. 26, 2009.), we ...

HER2-enriched subtype and ERBB2 mRNA as predictors of pathological complete response following trastuzumab and lapatinib without chemotherapy in early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer: A combined ...

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