Bob Behn of the Harvard Kennedy School discusses insights from his forthcoming book "The PerformanceStat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results."

Benjamin Jones of the Kellogg School of Management discuss types of data that can be used to make decisions, from anecdotes to results from experiments.

An interview with Robinson Hollister of Swarthmore College on key program evaluation topics, including the use of randomized control trials to learn what works in public policy.

Robert Lerman of the Urban Institute discusses how countries such as Switzerland and Germany -- and U.S. states such as South Carolina -- are using apprenticeship as a workforce development strategy.

As one of the leading experts on evaluation within the Federal government, Naomi Goldstein speaks about the building blocks of a robust evaluation capacity within public agencies. She also discusses the important relationship between evaluation offices and program offices.

The Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) is a unit within the Mayor’s Office in New York City. It was launched in 2006 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to develop new and innovative anti-poverty initiatives and to rigorously test them to see what works. It provides about $100 million annually to primarily city agencies to fund pilot programs. The majority of […]

With a population about the size of Virginia, Austria may be a relatively small nation, but it provides a prominent example of implementing performance budgeting. In particular, a series of budget reforms in recent years has significantly shifted the federal budget process in Austria from one focused on the question, “How much do we spend?” […]