LKY School Masterclass Series 2016

23 – 27 May 2016

APPLYING BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS TO PUBLIC POLICY

27 June – 01 July 2016

POLICY EVALUATION USING RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS

ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POVERTY ACTION LAB

IntroductionTwo revolutions have transformed economics in public policy in recent decades: Randomised Controlled Trials and Behavioural Insights.

The use of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate public policies and programmes has become mainstream among social scientists and, increasingly, governments. RCTs promote robust, evidence-based policymaking, and give decision-makers the confidence that their selected policies will be effective. Yet the use of RCTs is still relatively new to many national and local governments in the region, partly because of the dearth of policy practitioners and researchers trained in this method.

Policymakers around the world have also begun to take seriously the insights offered by behavioural economics and psychology. Instead of assuming that our citizens are the rational, interest-maximising agents we find in economics textbooks, behavioural economics starts with the more realistic assumption that people are affected by various cognitive complications. A growing body of research shows a number of situations in which individuals act in ways that run counter to the predictions of standard economics. Our rationality, self-control and self-interest are all bounded in ways that have important implications for the way governments design, implement and communicate policies.

Policymakers are often faced with the pressure of making timely, high quality solutions in an environment where time and information are lacking. These two fields of research which have transformed economics are no longer just good-to-know; they are must-knows for public officials.

In partnership with the world’s leading authorities on RCTs and Behavioural Insights, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy will offer a masterclass on Policy Evaluation Using Randomised Controlled Trials on 23 – 27 May 2016, and another on Applying Behavioural Insights to Public Policy on 27 June – 1 July 2016.

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Programme ObjectivesThe course aims to give participants a deep and comprehensive understanding of RCTs and how they can be implemented in programme evaluation and policy research. At the end of the course, participants will:

Appreciate the value of evaluating policies and programmes using RCTs;

Learn how to conduct RCTs and natural experiments in a wide variety of policy areas; and

Gain hands-on experience working with data, randomising and sampling

Target AudienceThis masterclass is suitable for policy analysts, researchers, and programme evaluation officers in government or in international organisations, non-profit

organisations and the private sector. Participants should ideally have at least two years of professional experience in policy analysis, research or evaluation.

Programme FocusTo be conducted over 5 days, the masterclass will feature expert speakers from the LKY School of Public Policy and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), imparting different theoretical and practical insights on the application of RCTs to evaluating social interventions and policies.

Among the key topics would include:

What is evaluation? Outcomes, impact and indicators Why randomise? How to randomise and randomisation

mechanics Sampling and sample size Threats and analysis Generalisability

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POLICY EVALUATION USING RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS MASTERCLASS (RCTs)

Date & Duration23 – 27 May 2016 (5 DAYS)

VenueLee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore (Bukit Timah Campus)

Programme Fees*

S$4,000 + 7% GST*

ApplicationPlease submit completed Application Form (REFER TO ENCLOSED FORM FOR MORE DETAILS)

Application Deadline13 May 2016

ContactExecutive Education DepartmentLee Kuan Yew School of Public PolicyTEL : (65) 6516 6458 / (65) 6516 1032 FAX : (65) 6872 9291EMAIL : lkysppep@nus.edu.sg

Ideology, ignorance and inertia – the three Is – on the part of the expert, the aid worker, or the local policy maker, often explain why policies fail. It is possible to make the world a better place – probably not tomorrow, but in some future that is within our reach – but we cannot get there with lazy thinking. We hope to persuade you that our patient, step-by-step approach is not only a more effective way….but also one that makes the world a more interesting place.

ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE AND ESTHER DUFLO, “Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty”, 2011

* Group Discount: For two (2) paying participants from the same organisation, the third participant gets a 50% discount.

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Faculty & SpeakersRUIMIN HE Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

He Ruimin is an Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Formerly a Naval Officer in the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), he commanded two missile corvettes and was Head of the RSN Strategy Office. As a member of the Singapore Administrative Service, he was the Deputy Director in the Foreign Economic Policy Department and a Research Economist in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. There, he conducted policy evaluations on a range of government policies. He is currently the CEO of Ukusan Pte Ltd, a data analytics start-up, with clients such as GrabTaxi and the Singapore Municipal Services Office. Dr He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Economics, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

LUC BEHAGHEL Associate Professor, PSE-École d’économie de Paris

Luc Behaghel is an Associate Professor at the Paris School of Economics, Researcher and Director of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), IZA Research fellow, co-director of CEPREMAP’s Labour programme, and a CREST affiliate. His research interests go from labour market and education policies to rural development issues. He is currently conducting several randomised evaluations on education and discrimination in France, and has started orienting his research toward agricultural technology adoption in developing countries.

GREG FISCHER Assistant Professor, London School of Economics

Greg Fischer is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and financial innovation in developing countries. Prior to returning to academia, Greg worked for nine years in the private equity and venture capital arms of Morgan Stanley and Centre Partners, an affiliate of Lazard. His current work includes the randomised evaluations of a business training programme in the Dominican Republic and the pricing of new water treatment technology in Ghana.

JESSICA GOLDBERG Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Maryland

Jessica Goldberg is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the ways that people in developing countries earn, spend, and save money. She is particularly interested in how financial market imperfections, behavioural factors, or other obstacles to borrowing and saving affect decisions about working and consuming. Goldberg holds a Ph.D. from University of Michigan.

APRAJIT MAHAJAN Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Aprajit Mahajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Mahajan’s research interests are in development and econometrics with a regional focus on India. Ongoing research includes field-experiments on management practices in large firms and the provision of health-improving technologies in rural India.

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Programme ObjectivesThrough the programme, participants will:

Understand the heuristics and cognitive complications that people often rely on to make decisions

Develop the necessary skil ls to apply behavioural insights in policy development and service delivery

Learn the tools and frameworks to design policies intended to shape and influence behaviours

Gain a behaviourally-informed perspective on policy communications

Target AudienceThis masterclass is designed for policy analysts, researchers, managers and other government professionals in policy and service delivery functions. It

is also suitable for middle and senior level practitioners from non-profit organisations and service providers.

Programme FocusThe five-day masterclass will be jointly delivered by the LKY School and the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) of UK, and supported by the Civil Service College (CSC). It offers a comprehensive introduction to the key ideas in behavioural insights, and equips policy officers with the foundations for formulating policies in a behaviourally compatible way. The course will involve a series of practical exercises and real-life cases of how policies and services can be designed using behavioural considerations. These learning-by-doing

experiences are complemented with reflections and theory to strengthen participants’ learning.

Through conceptual and practical exercises, participants will be exposed to the following topics:

Behavioural approaches to public policy

Getting People to Behave

Applying the EAST and MINDSPACE frameworks

Better Policy Communications

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APPLYING BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS TO PUBLIC POLICY MASTERCLASS (BI)

Date & Duration27 June – 01 July 2016 (5 DAYS)

VenueLee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore (Bukit Timah Campus)

Programme Fees*

S$3,600 + 7% GST*

ApplicationPlease submit completed Application Form (REFER TO ENCLOSED FORM FOR MORE DETAILS)

Application Deadline27 May 2016

ContactExecutive Education DepartmentLee Kuan Yew School of Public PolicyTEL : (65) 6516 5428 / (65) 6516 1032 FAX : (65) 6872 9291EMAIL : lkysppep@nus.edu.sg

Government can be much better, and do much better, if they make people’s life easier and get rid of unnecessary complexity.

Think for a moment about the best computers and tablets. They have all sorts of complicated machinery – machinery so complicated in fact that it would have been barely imaginable just a decade before. But for users, they are simple and intuitive. They don’t require manuals. You can work with them on the basis of what you already know.

Government should be a lot more like that.

CASS SUNSTEIN, 2013

* Group Discount: For three (3) paying participants from the same organisation, the fourth participant attends FREE.

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Faculty & SpeakersLAM CHUAN LEONG Professor (Practice), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Lam Chuan Leong has been the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of National Development, the Ministry for Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Communications and Information before his retirement. From 1981 to 1984, he served as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of Singapore. He has also been an Ambassador-at-Large with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Chairman of the National Science and Technology Board, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, and the Competition Commission of Singapore.

His key areas of interest and expertise are in the application of market analysis and micro-economics, particularly in regard to sectoral regulation of monopolies, externality pricing, particularly in the field of transport policy and market efficiency. He has been involved in the privatisation of key government sectors such as the utilities and telecoms sectors in Singapore and also the structuring and use of Public Private Partnership projects such as the Sports Hub. He is also closely involved with the evolution of competition policy and law in Singapore as the inaugural Chairman of the Competition Commission of Singapore. As previous Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, he is familiar with the economic development and international trade policies of Singapore.

KENT WEAVERSenior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Professor of Public Policy and Government, Georgetown University

R. Kent Weaver is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies programme at the Brookings Institution and Professor of Public Policy and Government at Georgetown University. His major fields of interest and expertise are policy implementation, comparative public policy, and behavioural approaches to the study of public policy

Weaver is the author of Ending Welfare As We Know It, Automatic Government: The Politics of Indexation and The Politics of Industrial Change. He has also coauthored and co-edited a number of publications including The Collapse of Canada?, The Government Taketh Away, Guidance for Governance, Think Tanks and Civil Societies, Looking Before We Leap: Social Science and Welfare Reform, and Do Institutions Matter: Government Capabilities in the U.S. and Abroad.

Weaver graduated from Haverford College in 1975 and received his M.A. and his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1978 and 1982, respectively.

DONALD LOW Associate Dean (Executive Education & Research) & Associate Professor (Practice), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Donald has administrative oversight of the School’s research centres and leads the School’s case writing efforts. His research interests include inequality and social spending, behavioural economics, economics and public policy, public finance, and governance and politics in Singapore. Prior to his current appointment, Donald served 15 years in the Singapore government in various senior positions. During that time, he established the Centre for Public Economics at the Civil Service College of Singapore. He was Director of Fiscal Policy at the Ministry of Finance from 2004 to 2005, and Director of Strategic Policy Office in the Public Service Division from 2006 to 2007. Donald holds a double first in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, and a Masters in International Public Policy from The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He is currently Vice President at the Economics Society of Singapore.

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RORY GALLAGHERManaging Director, Behavioural Insights Team (Australia and Asia-Pacific)

Rory Gallagher is a Managing Advisor and Director, International Programmes. Rory leads the team’s international partnerships, in particular the Behavioural Insights Team’s ongoing advisory work with the governments of New South Wales (Australia) and Singapore, and is a Visiting Fellow at Singapore’s Civil Service College. Before heading overseas, Rory led the team’s work on countering fraud, empowering consumers and helping people find work, including through the development of large scale randomised controlled trials and authoring our Fraud, Error and Debt report. Rory previously worked at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and holds a PhD from Cambridge for his work on HIV/AIDS and behaviour change.

OWAIN SERVICEManaging Director, Behavioural Insights Team

Owain Service is the Managing Director of the Behavioural Insights Team and Board Director. Owain was previously a Deputy Director of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, where he led programmes of work on public service reform, education, energy and developed the UK’s first National Security Risk Assessment as part of the Strategic Defence and Security Review. Prior to that, Owain chaired European negotiations while at the Foreign Office during the UK Government’s 2005 Presidency of the European Union. Owain holds degrees from Cambridge and the London School of Economics and has written widely on public policy strategy and behavioural insights, having co-authored most of the team’s papers (including ‘Test, Learn, Adapt’, ‘Behaviour Change and Energy Use’ and the EAST paper).

SAMUEL HANESDirector, Productivity, Behavioural Insights Team

Sam is the head of the team’s extensive work on employment. This has included the development of large scale Randomised Controlled Trials within Jobcentres, testing ways in which behavioural insights can support jobseekers back to work. Our work on employment has gone from working in one Jobcentre to national implementation – including the training of over 20,000 members of staff. He joined the Behavioural Insights Team in 2010 soon after it was created. He has worked on a wide range of behavioural insights projects over the years including health; consumer empowerment; fraud, debt and error; and economic growth.

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The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a network of 131 affiliated professors from over 40 universities. Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training across six regional offices worldwide. J-PAL’s training programmes allow participants to examine both successful and problematic evaluations, giving them better understanding of the significance of specific details of randomised evaluations. Furthermore, their programmes offer extensive opportunities to apply these ideas, leaving participants with the knowledge, experience, and confidence necessary to conduct their own randomised evaluations.

About ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POVERTY ACTION LAB (J-PAL)

The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is a social purpose company, jointly owned by the UK Government; Nesta; and our employees. We are focused on making public services more cost-effective and easier for citizens to use; improving outcomes by introducing a more realistic model of human behaviour to policy; and enabling people to make ‘better choices for themselves’.

We do this by redesigning public services and drawing on ideas from behavioural science. We are also highly empirical; we test and trial these ideas before they are scaled up to determine what works and does not work.

About THE BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS TEAM

About LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY

About CIVIL SERVICE COLLEGE (CSC)

Created as a statutory board under the Public Service Division, Prime Minister’s Office in 2001, the mission of the Civil Service College (CSC) Singapore is to develop people for a first-class Public Service. As the public sector’s core institution for training, learning, research and staff development, CSC provides officers from across the Public Service with opportunities to learn and share knowledge; network, dialogue and exchange views; and develop a service-wide ethos and shared perspectives. CSC’s wide range of activities builds strategic capacity in governance, leadership, public administration and management for a networked government in Singapore.

The LKY School is an autonomous, professional graduate school of the National University of Singapore. Our mission is to educate and train policy-makers and leaders, with the objective of raising the standards of governance throughout our region, improving the lives of its people and, in so doing, contributing to the transformation of Asia and beyond. LKY School also offers high quality customised Executive Programmes that cater to the needs of time-constrained senior managers and professionals, with the aim of delivering creative solutions to real management and leadership challenges.