Policy Schools Measure Counterfactual Impact

A policy school explicitly builds systems to measure its causal impact on public outcomes (who gets hired, what policies change, and what counterfactual would have happened without the school). It embeds data collection, pre‑registered evaluation and accountability mechanisms into curriculum design and career placement to avoid performative institutionalism. — If adopted widely, it would reframe professional education from credentialing to outcome‑measuring institutions, shifting incentives toward demonstrable public value and changing how governments recruit and reward talent.