Social Experiments

Evaluating Public Programs with Experimental Methods
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-7619-1295-8
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orr, Larry L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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