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Misleading evidence and evidence-led policy : making social science more experimental / special editor, Lawrence W. Sherman.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Sherman, Lawrence W.
Series:
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 002-7162 ; v. 589.
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 002-7162 ; v. 589
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social sciences--Methodology.
Social sciences.
Sociology--Methodology.
Sociology.
Social sciences--Statistical methods.
Sociology--Statistical methods.
Physical Description:
233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.
Contents:
Preface : Misleading evidence and evidence-led policy : Making social science more experimental / Lawrence W. Sherman
Section I : Why experiments matter
Trying to do more good than harm in policy and practice : The role of rigorous, transparent, up-to-date evaluations / Iain Chalmers
Scared Straight and other junenile awareness programs for preventing juvenile delinquency : a systematic review of the randomized experimental evidence / Anthony Petrosino, Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, John Buehler
Nonexperimental versus experimental estimates of earnings impacts / Steven Glazerman, Dan M. Levy, David Myers
The underprovision of experiments in political science / Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber
Section II : Resistance to experiments
Why have educational evaluators chosen not to do randomized experiments? / Thomad D. Cook
British randomized experiments on crime and justice / David P. Farrington
Section III : The growth of experimental evidence
Using random allocation to evaluate social interventions : three recent U.K. examples / Ann Oakley ... [et al.]
Estimates of randomized controlled trials across six areas of childhood intervention : a bibliometric analysis / Anthony Petrosino
Populating an international web-based randomized trials register in the social, behavioral, criminological, and education sciences / Herbert Turner ... [et al.]
Notes:
"September 2003"
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
0761928588
076192857X
OCLC:
52924832

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