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SUMMARY:Bad Bets\, Bad Apples or Bad Policy? ‘Ordeals’ in twenty-first
  century policymaking - Professor Carolyn Heinrich (George Eastman Visitin
 g Professor\, Balliol College\, Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:“Ordeals” are a tool of public policy that have been used 
 in public programmes to screen out potential programme beneficiaries who a
 re considered “bad bets”—those who benefit too little to warrant the
  public expenditures—and “bad apples\,” those who are viewed as unde
 serving for reasons of irresponsible\, immoral\, or illegal behaviour. The
  idea behind their use is to impose costs on access to public benefits (i.
 e.\, requiring greater outlays of effort) that induce applicants to reveal
  their true needs via their persistence through an arduous application pro
 cess and to increase targeting efficiency by screening out the less needy 
 and undeserving. A growing body of research that is investigating how orde
 als or burdens are enacted\, experienced\, and distributed finds\, however
 \, that the costs imposed by ordeals are often more difficult to bear for 
 those most in need of public benefits\, contributing to delays in or denia
 ls in access to public benefits that can lead to long-term\, life-altering
  consequences.\n\nCarolyn J. Heinrich\, George Eastman Visiting Professor 
 at Balliol College 2022-23\, is Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Publi
 c Policy and Education at Vanderbilt University\, Tennessee\, where she al
 so holds University Distinguished Professorships in both Leadership\, Poli
 cy\, and Organizations and in Political Science at the Vanderbilt College 
 of Arts and Science\, and a Professorship in Health Policy in the Vanderbi
 lt University School of Medicine.  Her research focuses on education\, w
 orkforce development\, social welfare policy\, program evaluation\, and pu
 blic management and performance management. She works directly with federa
 l\, state and local governments in her research to improve policy design a
 nd program effectiveness and also collaborates with nongovernmental organi
 zations to improve the impacts of economic and social investments in middl
 e-income and developing countries.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Carolyn Heinrich 
 (George Eastman Visiting Professor\, Balliol College\, Oxford)
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SUMMARY:Prof Carolyn Heinrich\, "When technology delivers all of the instr
 uction in a classroom: Immediate and longer-term impacts for learners" - P
 rofessor Carolyn Heinrich (George Eastman Visiting Professor\, Balliol Col
 lege\, Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:I will describe findings from a long-term study of online cour
 se-taking in secondary education\, which is widely used in U.S. schools to
  help students make progress toward graduation. The study looked inside ed
 ucational settings to observe how online courses are used and to assess wh
 ether students gain academically through their use\, drawing on millions o
 f records of online instructional sessions linked to student records. Thes
 e records were also linked to data on student educational and labor market
  outcomes\, including credits earned in high school\, high school graduati
 on\, college enrollment\, and labor market earnings. The students who were
  falling further behind educationally were more likely to be assigned to t
 ake their courses online\, and they were also typically less prepared acad
 emically and fared more poorly in their education and post-high school out
 comes. Limited resources both motivated the use of online course-taking sy
 stems in schools and constrained the implementation of recommended practic
 es and instructional supports to support student learning.\nSpeakers:\nPro
 fessor Carolyn Heinrich (George Eastman Visiting Professor\, Balliol Colle
 ge\, Oxford)
LOCATION:1 St Giles' (1 St Giles Seminar Room)\, 1 St Giles' OX1 3JS
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SUMMARY:Bad bets\, bad apples\, or bad policy? Should ordeals be a policy 
 tool of the Twenty-first Century?  - Professor Carolyn Heinrich (George Ea
 stman Visiting Professor\, Balliol College\, Oxford)\, Professor Ngaire Wo
 ods (Dean\, Blavatnik School of Government)
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Carolyn Heinrich gives the George Eastman Lecture\, 
 introduced by Professor Ngaire Woods.\n\n“Ordeals” are a tool of publi
 c policy that have been used in public programmes to screen out potential 
 programme beneficiaries who are considered “bad bets”—those who bene
 fit too little to warrant the public expenditures—and “bad apples\,”
  those who are viewed as undeserving for reasons of irresponsible\, immora
 l\, or illegal behaviour.\n\nThe idea behind their use is to impose costs 
 on access to public benefits (i.e.\, requiring greater outlays of effort) 
 that induce applicants to reveal or signal their “true preferences and n
 eeds” via their persistence through an arduous application process (Schu
 ck & Zeckhauser\, 2006). The use of ordeals is also rationalised by neocla
 ssical economic arguments suggesting that in the rationing of limited publ
 ic resources\, these types of mechanisms can increase the targeting effici
 ency of programs by screening out the less needy and undeserving\, or prio
 ritising access to benefits for the “good apples” and “good bets.”
 \n\nThe eligibility tests and administrative procedures applied in screeni
 ng applicants serve a legitimate purpose and act as a sorting function tha
 t is intended to increase the chances that those who ultimately receive pr
 ogram benefits are “good bets.” Because the costs of collecting ample 
 and accurate information to determine who is most in need and likely to be
 nefit from public programs are not trivial\, the shifting of these burdens
  to the applicants serves a secondary purpose of reducing public administr
 ation costs.\n\nHowever\, researchers drawing on the conceptual lens of ad
 ministrative burdens have shown that the shifting of burdens from the stat
 e to those apply for services or supports (and organisations that endeavor
  to help them) does not come cheaply. A rapidly expanding body of research
  that I will describe in this lecture—including my own work in three dif
 ferent policy areas that applies various methodologies—has investigated 
 how these ordeals or burdens are enacted\, experienced and distributed\, w
 ith both intended and unintended consequences. In fact\, there is growing 
 consensus that the costs imposed by ordeals tend to be more difficult to b
 ear for those who are most in need of the public programmes\, contributing
  to delays in or denials of access to public benefits that can lead to lon
 g-term\, life-altering consequences. \nSpeakers:\nProfessor Carolyn Heinri
 ch (George Eastman Visiting Professor\, Balliol College\, Oxford)\, Profes
 sor Ngaire Woods (Dean\, Blavatnik School of Government)
LOCATION:Blavatnik School of Government (Blavatnik School of Government an
 d Zoom)\, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
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 Ngaire Woods (Dean\, Blavatnik School of Government)
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