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Social Experiments

Evaluating Public Programs With Experimental Methods

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Written in a friendly, how-to manner, Social Experiments provides a basic understanding of how to design and implement social experiments and how to interpret their results. Through illustrative examples, the author provides a grounding in the experimental method and gives advice designs that best address alternative policy questions; maximizing the precision of the estimates; implementing the experiment in the field; data collection; estimating and interpreting program impacts, costs, and benefits; dealing with biases; and the use and misuse of experimental results in the policy process.

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Social Experiments, Larry L. Orr

Lingua
Pubblicato
1999
Rilegatura
(In brossura),
Condizioni del libro
Danneggiato
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2,18 €

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Titolo
Social Experiments
Sottotitolo
Evaluating Public Programs With Experimental Methods
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
1999
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
280
ISBN10
0761912959
ISBN13
9780761912958
Serie
Descrizione
Written in a friendly, how-to manner, Social Experiments provides a basic understanding of how to design and implement social experiments and how to interpret their results. Through illustrative examples, the author provides a grounding in the experimental method and gives advice designs that best address alternative policy questions; maximizing the precision of the estimates; implementing the experiment in the field; data collection; estimating and interpreting program impacts, costs, and benefits; dealing with biases; and the use and misuse of experimental results in the policy process.