Panel: Using Randomized Control Trials to Improve Government Agency Operations
(Methods and Empirical Data)

Friday, November 8, 2013: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM
DuPont Ballroom G (Washington Marriott)

*Names in bold indicate Presenter

Panel Organizers:  Stephen Weinberg, State University of New York, Albany
Panel Chairs:  Michael Wiseman, George Washington University
Discussants:  Stephen Bell, Abt Associates, Inc. and Larry Orr, Johns Hopkins University
Plans and Rationale for the Human Services Research Initiative Prize: Promoting Small-Scale Rigorous Evaluations for Policy and Management
Thomas Gais, State University of New York, Albany and Michael Wiseman, George Washington University


Using RCTs to Test Procedural Changes: Evidence From Medicaid Fraud Investigations
Stephen Weinberg, State University of New York, Albany


Local Agency Lessons On Implementing Random Assignment: An Example From Nyc's Child Support Program
Kinsey Dinan, NYC Human Resources Administration


Flawed Social Experiments
David H. Greenberg, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Burt Barnow, George Washington University


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