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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780761912958
- ISBN-10: 0761912959
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
- Publish Date: October 1998
- Dimensions: 9.18 x 6.02 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.99 pounds
- Page Count: 280
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