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Field experiments and their critics : essays on the uses and abuses of experimentation in the social sciences /
In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed to precisely infer causal effects through active...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2014.
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| Colección: | Yale ISPS series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.