Which Public Policies are Most Effective?

Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser. 2020. “A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 135 (3): 1209-1318. Check the authors’ websites for the posted paper: https://scholar.harvard.edu/hendren/home https://bsprungkeyser.com/ Governments pursue numerous policies to improve social welfare, and many of these have been extensively studied. But how do we bridge the gap between individual policy evaluations and the broader question of where the government should invest its resources? In general, which public policies provide the biggest bang for the buck? About this channel: econimate® is a YouTube channel aimed at making economics research accessible and engaging. What questions are economists asking, how are they tackling them, and how does this research help us understand the world around us? http://www.econimate.com/   / econimate   Created by Hoai-Luu Nguyen Video uses “WritingMarker” by fastson licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...