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Evidence-Based Policy Episodes

Nov. 2, 2021

Clifford Winston on Markets Helping Government

Dr. Clifford Winston is a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution's Economic Studies Program. He joined TPI Distinguished Senior Fellow Bob Hahn to discuss his book, "Gaining Ground: Markets Helping Government," which was published earlier this year by Brookings. This podcast is part of our spec…

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Sept. 28, 2021

Edward Miguel on the “Replication Crisis” in Economics and How to Fix…

Professor Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley. We will be talking about his book, Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research, written with Garr…

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June 23, 2021

Adam Gamoran on Evidence-Based Policy

Adam Gamoran is President of the William T. Grant Foundation. Before that, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Disclaimer: TPI received a grant from the William T. Grant Foundation that allowed us to explore ways in which the 2019 Evidence Act could be administer…

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April 12, 2021

Jon Baron on Evidence Based Policy at Arnold Ventures

Jon Baron is Vice-President of Evidence-Based Policy at Arnold Ventures. Before that, he founded the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, which worked with federal policy officials to advance evidence-based reform.

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Jan. 28, 2021

Nick Hart on Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act

Nick Hart is one of the world's experts in telling people how to get evidence-based policy to work in real-time. He's also the CEO of the Data Coalition. He helped shape the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, and those of us in the know sometimes call it “the Evidence Act,” and he's w…

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Sept. 25, 2020

Michael Shellenberger - Apocalypse Never: A New Approach to Environme…

Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and the Founder and President of Environmental Progress. He's been a climate and environmental activist for over 30 years. He's helped save nuclear reactors around the world, and I'll leave it for him to explain why when we talk. An…

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Sept. 8, 2020

Protecting Privacy and Moving the Evidence Ball Down the Field with N…

Dr. Nancy Potok served as the Chief Statistician of the United States until January of this year, 2020. She has over 30 years of leadership experience in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Nancy also served as a commissioner on the US Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, where I had …

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June 29, 2020

Robert Shea on Evidence Based Policy's Impact and Potential

Robert Shea served as a commissioner on the Evidence-Based Policy Commission. Prior to that, he chaired the National Academy of Public Administration, which puts out a lot of great publications on public administration, of all things. He did some distinguished service at OMB, the Office of Manageme…

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