Randomized evaluations & the power of evidence | Amy Finkelstein | TEDxPennsylvaniaAvenue

Amy Finkelstein, the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America; and one of the world’s leading health care experts uses the results of the 2008 Oregon Medicaid Lottery to explain why researchers, governments, insurers, and health care providers can and should use randomized controlled trials to continuously improve health care outcomes for our nation's citizens.

Amy Finkelstein is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America, a research center at MIT designed to encourage and facilitate randomized evaluations of important domestic policy issues. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including the John Bates Clark Medal (2012), given annually to the economist under the age of 40 who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. She has also received awards for graduate student teaching (2012) and graduate student advising (2010) at MIT. She is one of two Principal Investigators currently leading the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a randomized evaluation of the impact of extending Medicaid coverage to low income, uninsured adults.

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