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Social Experimentation : Conference Report.

Since 1970 the United States government has spent over half a billion dollars on social experiments intended to assess the effect of potential tax policies, health insurance plans, housing subsidies, and other programs. Was it worth it? Was anything learned from these experiments that could not have...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hausman, Jerry A.
Otros Autores: Wise, David A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Social Experimentation; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Residential Electricity Time-of-Use Pricing Experiments: What Have We Learned?; 2. Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned?; 3. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies; 4. Macroexperiments versus Microexperiments for Health Policy; 5. Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis; 6. Toward Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Social Experiments.