| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25848 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25848 |
| The Science of Using Science: Towards an Understanding of the Threats to Scaling Experiments | |
| Omar Al-Ubaydli; John A. List; Dana Suskind | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-05-20 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Policymakers are increasingly turning to insights gained from the experimental method as a means of informing public policies. Whether—and to what extent—insights from a research study scale to the level of the broader public is, in many situations, based on blind faith. This scale-up problem can lead to a vast waste of resources, a missed opportunity to improve people’s lives, and a diminution in the public’s trust in the scientific method’s ability to contribute to policymaking. This study provides a theoretical lens to deepen our understanding of the science of how to use science. Through a simple model, we highlight three elements of the scale-up problem: (1) when does evidence become actionable (appropriate statistical inference); (2) properties of the population; and (3) properties of the situation. We argue that until these three areas are fully understood and recognized by researchers and policymakers, the threats to scalability will render any scaling exercise as particularly vulnerable. In this way, our work represents a challenge to empiricists to estimate the nature and extent of how important the various threats to scalability are in practice, and to implement those in their original research. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25848 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583521 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Omar Al-Ubaydli,John A. List,Dana Suskind. The Science of Using Science: Towards an Understanding of the Threats to Scaling Experiments. 2019. |
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| w25848.pdf（299KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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