Local Knowledge, Formal Evidence, and Policy Decisions

• Tác giả: Eva Vivalt
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 001 Knowledge
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 300062
• Chủ đề: 1. DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT; 2. EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY; 3. EXTERNAL VALIDITY

Tóm tắt

How do policymakers value advice from local experts versus formal evidence from impact evaluations when making policy decisions Using a discrete choice experiment conducted in collaboration with the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, we show that policymakers were willing to accept a program that had a 5.0 percentage point smaller estimated effect on enrollment rates if it were recommended by a local expert. They also preferred programs supported by evidence from a different region over programs supported by local evaluations only if the former had a 5.8 percentage point higher estimated impact. These premiums are large, surpassing the effects of many programs aimed at improving enrollment rates. This highlights the substantial weight that policymakers place on local evidence.