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John List

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Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

They are the people who are the fraction or the group of people who receive the largest program benefits.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

They are the people who are the fraction or the group of people who receive the largest program benefits.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

They are the people who are the fraction or the group of people who receive the largest program benefits.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

That's one piece of it. Another piece is... who will sign their kids up for Head Start or for a program in a neighborhood that advances the reading skills of the child? Who's going to be first in line? The people who really care about education and the people who think their child will receive the most benefits from the program.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

That's one piece of it. Another piece is... who will sign their kids up for Head Start or for a program in a neighborhood that advances the reading skills of the child? Who's going to be first in line? The people who really care about education and the people who think their child will receive the most benefits from the program.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

That's one piece of it. Another piece is... who will sign their kids up for Head Start or for a program in a neighborhood that advances the reading skills of the child? Who's going to be first in line? The people who really care about education and the people who think their child will receive the most benefits from the program.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

Now, another way to get it is sort of along the lines that you talked about. It could be the researcher knows something about the population. That other people don't know. Like, I want to give my program its best shot of working. Okay. And what's in your third bucket of scaling failures? The third bucket is something that we call the wrong situation was used.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

Now, another way to get it is sort of along the lines that you talked about. It could be the researcher knows something about the population. That other people don't know. Like, I want to give my program its best shot of working. Okay. And what's in your third bucket of scaling failures? The third bucket is something that we call the wrong situation was used.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

Now, another way to get it is sort of along the lines that you talked about. It could be the researcher knows something about the population. That other people don't know. Like, I want to give my program its best shot of working. Okay. And what's in your third bucket of scaling failures? The third bucket is something that we call the wrong situation was used.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

And what I mean by that is that certain aspects of the situation change when you go from the original research to the scaled research program. we don't understand what properties of the situation or features of the environment will matter. There are a really large group of implementation scientists who have explored this question for years.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

And what I mean by that is that certain aspects of the situation change when you go from the original research to the scaled research program. we don't understand what properties of the situation or features of the environment will matter. There are a really large group of implementation scientists who have explored this question for years.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

And what I mean by that is that certain aspects of the situation change when you go from the original research to the scaled research program. we don't understand what properties of the situation or features of the environment will matter. There are a really large group of implementation scientists who have explored this question for years.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

Now, what they emphasize and focus on is something called voltage drop. And voltage drop essentially means I found a really good result in my original research study. But then when they do it at scale, that voltage drop ends up being, for example, a tenth of the original result or a quarter of the original result.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

Now, what they emphasize and focus on is something called voltage drop. And voltage drop essentially means I found a really good result in my original research study. But then when they do it at scale, that voltage drop ends up being, for example, a tenth of the original result or a quarter of the original result.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

Now, what they emphasize and focus on is something called voltage drop. And voltage drop essentially means I found a really good result in my original research study. But then when they do it at scale, that voltage drop ends up being, for example, a tenth of the original result or a quarter of the original result.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

An example of this is when you look at Head Start's home visiting services, what they do there is this is an early childhood intervention.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

An example of this is when you look at Head Start's home visiting services, what they do there is this is an early childhood intervention.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

An example of this is when you look at Head Start's home visiting services, what they do there is this is an early childhood intervention.

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

that found huge improvements in both child and parent outcomes in the original study, except when they tried to scale that up into home visits at a much larger scale, what they found is that, for example, home visits for at-risk families involved a lot more distractions in the house and there was less time on child-focused activities. So this is sort of

Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

that found huge improvements in both child and parent outcomes in the original study, except when they tried to scale that up into home visits at a much larger scale, what they found is that, for example, home visits for at-risk families involved a lot more distractions in the house and there was less time on child-focused activities. So this is sort of