Social Experimentation and Public Policy

by David H. Greenberg, Donna Linksz, Marvin Mandell

Social experiments use random assignment to measure the market or fiscal outcomes of policy interventions. Since the 1960s, they have become the major method for evaluating proposed changes in social programs. To judge the social gains of these experiments, policymakers, funders of experiments, the public, and those who conduct social experiments need realistic standards and expectations for judging.Social Experimentation and Public Policymaking advances...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087766711X
• ISBN13: 9780877667117
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 335 Pages