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Does this policy work here?

22 April 2025
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Nancy Cartwright, Eileen Munro and Brendan Kelters have published a new paper in the CHESS Working Paper series called: "Does this policy work here? Using evidence for better policy design, prediction and evaluation".

The new booklet is an overview of the method proposed in Cartwright, N., Munro, E. & Pemberton, 
J. (forthcoming), Causal Processes and their Warrant: A Practical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

The new working paper is a guide on using evidence for:

  • Better policy design and implementation 
  • More reliable prediction about whether a policy will work where 
    it is implemented
  • More accurate post hoc evaluation of whether a policy worked 
    as intended 

 

The work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant Ref: AH/X006727/1.