This award supports the development of fifteen papers on the evidence-based policy movement for a volume of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
The investigator will analyze the development of six efforts of the Obama administration: home visitation, teen pregnancy prevention, the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, the Social Innovation Fund, the Community College Challenge Fund, and the Workforce Innovation Fund.
Evidence-based policy is expanding its reach, this time by showing new ways to influence behavior, improve the efficiency of government programs, and save money.
In their new book, funded in part by the Foundation, Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis analyze how President Obama’s administration has incorporated rigorous evidence of program effectiveness into domestic initiatives on issues ranging from K-12 education to teen ...
Ron Haskins is a PI on 2 grants to The Brookings Institution and is an author on 1 blog post.
Bio
Ron Haskins is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution and senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore. From February to December of 2002 he was the senior advisor to the president for welfare policy at the White House.
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
