Comments on Randall Brown's Paper, "The Evolving Art of Program Evaluation," on the Occasion of Brown Receiving the Peter Rossi Award From APPAM, November 12, 2020.

IF 3 4区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-02 DOI:10.1177/0193841X211055939

Katherine Swartz

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Abstract

At a 1986 conference about the Income Maintenance Experiments, Robert Solow commented, “Suppose society wants to do something that is the right thing to do...There will sometimes be economical doubts, worries that doing the right thing might be unsuspectedly costly. Awell-designed experiment can help find out, and the prevalence of weak results is not an obstacle” (Solow, 1986, p. 222). Randall Brown instilled that point in the various evaluations he led. As a result, his contributions to evaluation research have had significant impacts on policies affecting the 40% of Americans covered by Medicare or

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2020年11月12日，兰德尔·布朗在接受APPAM颁发的彼得·罗西奖之际，对他的论文《项目评估的不断发展的艺术》的评论。

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