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Social experiments : evaluating public programs with experimental methods / Larry L. Orr.
- Title
- Social experiments : evaluating public programs with experimental methods / Larry L. Orr.
- Author
- Orr, Larry L.
- Publication
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1999.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| c.2 | Text | Request in advance | H62 .O755 1999 c.2 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 263 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.--Publisher description.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Why experiment? The rationale and history of social experiments -- Basic concepts and principles of social experimentation -- Alternative random assignment models -- Sample design -- Implementation and data collection -- Analysis -- Social experimentation and the policy process.
- ISBN
- 0761912940 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 0761912959 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^98025337^
- OCLC
- 39215791
- SCSB-10462968
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library