Abstract

Historically, a lack of comparable data on the laws and policies that shape health, education, poverty, and other outcomes has hindered researchers’ ability to provide rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of different policy designs. This article describes public-use downloadable data built by the WORLD Policy Analysis Center to fill this gap. Over 2,000 quantitatively comparable measures of national laws and policies across 193 countries were assembled. This open-access data source provides a tool for monitoring the adoption of evidence-based laws and policies, identifying policy gaps, and rigorously evaluating how policies shape outcomes across different regions and socioeconomic contexts.

摘要

从历史上看，缺乏有关影响健康、教育、贫困和其他结果的法律和政策的可比数据，阻碍了研究人员就不同政策设计的有效性提供严格证据的能力。本文介绍了世界政策分析中心为填补这一空白而构建的公共可下载数据。汇集了 193 个国家/地区的 2,000 多项可量化的国家法律和政策措施。这个开放获取的数据源提供了一个工具，用于监测循证法律和政策的采用情况、确定政策差距以及严格评估政策如何影响不同地区和社会经济环境的结果。