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From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application

[Symposium: From Experiments to Economic Policy]

By Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, James Berry, Esther Duflo, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukerji, Marc Shotland, and Michael Walton

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017

The promise of randomized controlled trials is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us—possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts—to inform policy. Howeve...