Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan

Randomized controlled trials are increasingly used to evaluate policies. How can we make these experiments as useful as possible for policy purposes? We argue greater use should be made of experiments that identify behavioral mechanisms that are central to clearly specified policy questions, what we call "mechanism experiments." These types of experiments can be of great policy value even if the intervention that is tested (or its setting) does not correspond exactly to any realistic policy option

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Year of publication:	May 2011
Authors:	Ludwig, Jens
Other Persons:	Kling, Jeffrey R. (contributor) ; Mullainathan, Sendhil (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Experimentelle Ökonomik \| Experimental economics \| Politik \| Politics \| Politisches Ziel \| Political goal

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