Social Experiments: Evaluating Public Programs with Experimental Methods

By Larry L. Orr

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761912959
• ISBN13: 9780761912958
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"