{"id":16659,"date":"2014-07-21T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/?p=16659"},"modified":"2014-07-21T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:52:00","slug":"bu-economics-phd-student-matthew-johnson-awarded-coalition-for-evidence-based-policy-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/2014\/07\/21\/bu-economics-phd-student-matthew-johnson-awarded-coalition-for-evidence-based-policy-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Economics PhD student Matthew Johnson awarded Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhD student <strong>Matthew Johnson<\/strong> received a grant from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/coalition4evidence.org\/\">Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy<\/a>, a Washington, DC, based think tank. The grant is together with Michael Toffel at the Harvard Business School and David Levine at the University of California, Berkeley. Their project is to develop a low cost randomized control trial to provide a clearer understanding of the impact of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and inspections. As a by-product, they will identify the types of workplaces where OSHA inspections are more or less effective and generate other insights to improve the targeting of OSHA efforts in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The grant was awarded as part of a nation-wide competition for research on randomized control trials. Johnson&#8217;s proposal was one of three funded by the Coalition. The competition and Johnson&#8217;s project were discussed in an article in the New York Times July 15, 2014, and on the White House Office of Science and Technology blog July 9, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD student Matthew Johnson received a grant from the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, a Washington, DC, based think tank. The grant is together with Michael Toffel at the Harvard Business School and David Levine at the University of California, Berkeley. Their project is to develop a low cost randomized control trial to provide a clearer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7308,4626,7309],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16660,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659\/revisions\/16660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}