(Still) recommended. Perhaps there is something unique about the people studied by RCTs in the criminal legal space that could limit generalizability. For instance, the… Read More »“If it was easy for them to have made a meaningful improvement, they would have done so already.”: Megan Stevenson on social change and constraints
Recommended. A wide-lens view on more than fifty years of RCTs in the criminal legal space reveals a few common themes: most interventions don’t work,… Read More »Cascades, tides and shifting stars in social interventions: Megan Stevenson on cause, effect and the limits of RCTs
Read, then read again replacing “software” with “your social program” or “your business”: Software is a temporary garden whose fate is inextricably intertwined with its… Read More »Baldur Bjarnason on theory-building, living code and team churn
An ideology of “everyone for himself” will not work when the health of each of us depends so unavoidably on the health of all of… Read More »Gordon Brown: All for one
Raj Chetty: This was an impressive study conducted by my colleagues Nathan Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser at Harvard… and the main punchline that they arrived… Read More »Raj Chetty on return on investment for social programs