Social Experiments: Evaluating Public Programs With Experimental Methods

Orr, Larry L.

ISBN 10: 0761912959 / ISBN 13: 9780761912958

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Social Experiments: Evaluating Public Programs With Experimental Methods
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761912959
• ISBN 13: 9780761912958
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 on: 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.