The shingles vaccine may have a protective effect against dementia, write doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

Researchers from Monash University say BV should be redefined as a sexually transmitted infection (STI) due to its frequent ...

Banerjee, A., Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden. "Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no ...

Currently, Portal Randomized is only playable as a demo, which provides the first two chambers to experiment with. But this is enough to communicate the potential in the idea. What it needs now ...

Kluender, Raymond, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. "The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32315, April 2024.

We ran school-by-grade-level clustered randomized controlled trials at five public elementary schools in Cambodia. After confirming that the IQ scores of treated students significantly improved over ...

In economics, it’s not as simple to conduct double blind randomized experiments. In these situations, economists have to rely on observational studies. Disentangling correlation and causation in a ...

Drawing on the recent work of Armona, Fuster and Zafar (2018), we conduct a randomized information experiment leveraging the Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations (CSCE). We find the following: ...