Any evaluation of the benefits of policy-oriented social science research faces fundamental difficulties. These include the uncertainty in determining a causal link between research and the outcome of a policy or the value of a policy outcome.
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This paper addresses the problem of how to measure the benefits of policy-oriented social science research.
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Policy for plenty
This paper suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante.
This paper addresses two questions: The first is What are the benefits of social science research?; the second is "How should they be measured?" The response to the first is that, as with research in the physical sciences, the benefits s
What are the “returns” to policy-oriented research in the social sciences?
In February 1987, the Government of Pakistan (GOP) abolished the wheat ration shop system.