At Yale, scholars and policymakers unite to improve state Medicaid program

Yale’s Tobin Centre for Economic Policy convened with researchers and state officials to enhance Connecticut’s Medicaid programme. The meeting marked the beginning of a partnership between the State of Connecticut, the Tobin Centre and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT to harness evidence-based social science research to improve the local public health system. Specifically, they explored the potential to improve the Medicaid programme through randomised-controlled trials (RCTs), a methodology spearheaded by J-PAL, which uses prospective studies to measure the effectiveness of policy interventions.