Sentences with phrase «social policy experiments»
Using instrumental variables analysis to learn more from social policy experiments (MDRC working papers on research methodology)
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STOCKTON — A consortium of policy experts, researchers and academics has awarded $ 1 million to Stockton to fund an experiment that aims to assess the social benefits of providing a guaranteed monthly income for one or more years to a tiny segment of the city's residents, Mayor Michael Tubbs announced Wednesday...
The most important conclusion to emerge from this «queer mixture of hard data, soft data, thought experiments, and speculations» is that social policy can not afford to ignore what Edmund Burke called «the little platoon we belong to in society.»
We developed a social media policy, formed social media team from various departments and started experimenting.
Like in the past, new policy innovations are currently being explored to find new ways to deal with the social pressure resulting from the increasing obsolescence of manual labour, as can be seen in the experimenting with Universal Basic Income in Finland.
If something of this magnitude is not offered I think the conference season will end with the replacement of three party leaders who are unable to address the ongoing muddle of national policies viewed as social and constitutional experiments with no obvious net benefit.
«These results come from a randomized experiment of the sort that generates gold - standard evidence in medicine, but remains far too rare in the area of social policy,» noted Roseanna Ander, Executive Director of the UChicago Urban Education Lab.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in a 1932 opinion, wrote that a state could be a «laboratory» for policy, and «try novel social and economic experiments» on its own.
Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...
The lessons of the past half century, and especially of the Great Society's mostly failed experiments in social policy, can help us think more clearly about the means by which this end could be pursued.
Thus began the one - child policy, the world's most radical social experiment, which continues to irrevocably shape how one in six people in this world are born, live, and die.
The abolition of China's one - child policy brings to an end one of the most futile and inhumane experiments in top - down social engineering the world has seen.