The Australian Innovation Community

Dr Andrew Leigh, from the ANU's Research School of Social Sciences, proposes that the Federal Government establishes a fund of between $50m and $200m (depending on its scope) to paid for State-run randomised policy trials.

He argues that these trials are the "gold standard" for establishing good policy but individual states have no incentive to pay for them individually, since all the other states benefit from the results for free. A federal fund could allow this work to be done for the benefit of all states.

You can read the abstract here: Federal fund for states to run randomised policy trials submission