Randomized Controlled Trials of Public Policy
At IPPSR, we are underway building a comprehensive database full of policy-relevant research. A large focus of the database is to find randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of public policy experimentation. These studies enable causal inference by randomly assigning a policy intervention to some people or areas and comparing the results to a control group. So far, we are proud to have summarized roughly 60 published studies utilizing RCTs to examine the effects of policy implementation. These RCTs range in their focus, and can be categorized into 7 categories.