Decide Smart conducts state-of-the-art economic analyses that enables organizations to understand the fiscal and budgetary consequences of the choices they are considering. Decision Research employs sophisticated forecasting tools that enable governments and agencies to allocate scarce resources most effectively.
Our team members have developed forecasts that have a wide range of applications, from helping a state corrections department make annual forecasts of prison populations to assisting social service agencies in obtaining child support from “deadbeat dads.”
Decide Smart also performs economic impact studies that enable governments and organizations to understand the economic consequences of specific projects and policy choices. Our studies utilize rigorous and transparent methods that are critical to obtaining credibility for the economic claims made on behalf of development projects.