Knowing What Works: Rigorous Policy Evaluation That Drives Continuous Improvement

Programs and policies should be judged by their results—not their intentions. Rigorous policy evaluation produces the evidence that allows agencies to understand whether their investments are achieving intended outcomes, where gaps exist, and how programs can be redesigned to perform better. Jack Faucett Analytics has conducted program and policy evaluations for federal agencies across transportation, energy, labor, and economic development for decades, applying the full toolkit of applied economic and social science research to the questions that matter most to program managers, oversight bodies, and the public.

JFA’s policy evaluation practice draws on quasi-experimental methods, econometric impact analysis, process evaluation, and mixed-methods research to produce credible, actionable findings about program performance. We help agencies define the right evaluation questions, design research frameworks that can yield defensible causal inferences, and build the data infrastructure needed to sustain ongoing performance monitoring. Our evaluations meet the evidentiary standards of federal oversight—including Inspector General and GAO review—and are designed to produce findings that are both technically rigorous and practically useful to the program managers and policymakers who rely on them.