December 2015 updates on grants to support work by Prof. Angela Hawken
Open Philanthropy, 2016
Abstract
This Open Philanthropy webpage reports research grants to support projects led by Professor Angela Hawken in beta government and drug use policy. In the first project, she uses RCTs to develop policy knowledge by testing public sector ideas and facilitating learning from them. In the second, she studies the impact of Washington State’s marijuana legalization by collecting urine samples from the Department of Corrections. As of December 2015, BetaGov has progressed well in initiating trials in criminal justice and health and human services, while the marijuana legalization study has collected enough data to make a compelling statement on the impact of removing the penalty for marijuana use. – AI-generated abstract.
