A new statistical tool can help researchers get meaningful results when a randomized experiment, considered the gold standard, is not possible. A new statistical tool can help researchers get ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical ...

Randomized experiments have long been a cornerstone of scientific research. And many tech companies run randomized tests to learn from the huge amounts of data their customers generate. In 2019, ...

My previous article of 19 October, ‘Better ways to help workers than minimum wages’ (bit.ly/3nr0vnD), mentioned that conclusions from a 1994 paper of Card and Krueger that employment rose in New ...

The number-one job of a marketer is to invest budget wisely to drive sales. That inherently requires accurately measuring the performance of that spending. Yet most advertisers still rely on flawed ...

Kluender, Raymond, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. "The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32315, April 2024.

When this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to three pioneers in using randomized controlled trials to fight poverty in developing countries, the choice revived questions ...