Getting policy-makers to listen to field experiments
探讨为何实地实验在政策制定中未被广泛使用，并提出通过整合成本效益分析和福祉测量来增加其应用，为政策制定者提供实用路线图。
We start with the premise that the greater use of field experiments in policy would lead to the more efficient use of scarce resources. This paper asks why field experiments are not used as widely as they could be and considers what can be done to increase their use. We review the most commonly encountered hurdles in getting field experiments to be taken seriously by policy-makers. We begin with some common misconceptions about ethics and logistics and then illustrate two advances—the integration of field experiments with cost-effectiveness analysis and wellbeing measures—that can be highlighted in order to get policy-makers excited about the idea of rolling out field experiments. We provide a hands-on roadmap of the points at which key concepts and practical solutions should be introduced in order to get a field experiment up and running for policy purposes.