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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

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Année de publication
1999
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(souple),
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Abîmé
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Titre
Social Experiments
Sous-titre
Evaluating Public Programs With Experimental Methods
Langue
Anglais
Publié
1999
Format
souple
Pages
280
ISBN10
0761912959
ISBN13
9780761912958
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Description
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.