Field experiments and their critics : essays on the uses and abuses of experimentation in the social - detaljert visning

Field experiments and their critics : essays on the uses and abuses of experimentation in the social sciences /

edited by Dawn Langan Teele.
Bok Engelsk 2014


Omfang	viii, 270 sider
Opplysninger	Preface -- Introduction / Dawn L. Teele -- The illusion of learning from observational research / Alan Gerber, Donald Green, and Edward Kaplan -- A defense of observational research / Susan Stokes -- A retreat from radical skepticism : rebalancing theory, measurement, and randomization in development economics / Christopher B. Barrett and Michael R. Carter -- The experimental approach to development economics / Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo -- Reflections on the ethics of field experiments / Dawn L. Teele -- Instruments, randomization, and learning about development / Angus Deaton -- Experimental reasoning in social science / Andrew Gelman -- Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference / Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth A. Stuart -- Methods are like people : if you focus only on what they can't do, you will always be disappointed / Ian Shapiro -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Emner	Social sciences - Research - Methodology.
Dewey	300.72
ISBN	9780300169409