It has been announce that Prof Robert Hahn, Senior Research Fellow with INET Oxford and also Director of Economics and a Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, has been appointed Speaker on the Commission for Evidence-based Policymaking.
The Commission has been created to study how to integrate the large amount of data collected by the federal government and use it to perform evaluations that could help policymakers improve programs. But the commission would also investigate how to make data available to other qualified researchers while also protecting people’s privacy and ensuring confidentiality.
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