Thomas D. Cook, a professor of sociology, psychology, education, and social policy at Northwestern University, criticizes education researchers’ reluctance to perform randomized experiments. He points ...

A new statistical tool can help researchers get meaningful results when a randomized experiment, considered the gold standard, is not possible. A new statistical tool can help researchers get ...

Randomized experiments have long been a cornerstone of scientific research. And many tech companies run randomized tests to learn from the huge amounts of data their customers generate. In 2019, ...

The number-one job of a marketer is to invest budget wisely to drive sales. That inherently requires accurately measuring the performance of that spending. Yet most advertisers still rely on flawed ...

If inflation increases rapidly, how do we know that higher interest rates will bring prices under control? And how do we know how much of the monetary “medicine” to administer? Economics relies ...

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs; sometimes referred to as A/B tests) are considered the gold standard for evidence in science and medicine. If you took anything away from your Research Methods 101 ...

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Research Associate at the Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre (PEERC) and Visiting Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS), ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objective The increasing availability of large administrative datasets has led to an exciting innovation in criminal justice research—using ...