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Backing what works? Social Impact Bonds and evidence-informed policy and practice

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  • Alec Fraser
  • Stefanie Tan
  • Annette Boaz
  • Nicholas Mays

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Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) offer an opportunity to explore the use of evidence to inform public policy and commissioning decisions in both discursive and practical terms in what are frequently highly politicized contexts. We identify three potential mechanisms by which SIBs may promote evidence use and explore these through empirical findings drawn from a three-year evaluation of SIBs applied to health and social care in the English NHS.This paper highlights three mechanisms by which SIBs may encourage evidence-informed policy-making. First, the ability of SIB financing to promote specific interventions for which a positive evidence base already exists. Second, the opportunities that SIB-financed programmes offer for the promotion of evidence use through improved local data collection practices. Third, the opportunities that SIB-financed interventions offer for formal evaluation. The authors tested these mechanisms; the implications of the results for policy-makers, public managers and other interested parties are presented in the paper.

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  • Alec Fraser & Stefanie Tan & Annette Boaz & Nicholas Mays, 2020. "Backing what works? Social Impact Bonds and evidence-informed policy and practice," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(3), pages 195-204, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:40:y:2020:i:3:p:195-204
    DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2020.1714303
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    1. Walker, Thomas & Goubran, Sherif & Karami, Moein & Dumont-Bergeron, Adele & Schwartz, Tyler & Vico, Kalima, 2023. "Mainstreaming social impact bonds: A critical analysis," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 53(C).
    2. Rosella Carè & Stella Carè & Nathalie Lévy & Rabia Fatima, 2023. "Missing finance in social impact bond research? A bibliometric overview between past and future research," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 30(5), pages 2101-2120, September.
    3. Julie RIJPENS & Marie J. BOUCHARD & Emilien GRUET & Gabriel SALATHÉ-BEAULIEU, 2020. "Social Impact Bonds: Promises versus facts. What does the recent scientific literature tell us?," CIRIEC Working Papers 2015, CIRIEC - Université de Liège.

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