Read our policy design guide on what the evidence says about policy responses to major job losses caused by economic shocks
Read our set of policy design guides to help you to make informed decisions when developing transport programmes
In their focus on delivering a good policy on time and on budget, people often don’t think…
The core objective of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth is to answer the question: which…
So far in this series of blogs, I’ve talked about the importance of starting early, of defining…
In my last post in this How to Evaluate series I considered some of the issues around collecting…
My last post dealt with the issue of the importance of defining success when thinking about how to…
One of the major problems with improving evaluation and getting it embedded in the policy design process arises…
On this page you can learn more about the methodology used to produce our evidence reviews and why…
In order to produce our reviews, we screen an initial long-list of evaluations on relevance, geography,…
In putting together our reviews of the evidence on local economic growth policies we sorted through thousands…
As discussed in our how to evaluate series, one way to ensure robust evaluation is to make better use of secondary data. This can be a cheaper and less burdensome way to find out about both the ‘treatment’ and ‘control’ groups, since this data is already being collected for other purposes.When tracking outcomes…
We’ve launched a new toolkit today looking at the support provided to workers affected by major job losses. Major job losses may occur when large firms…
