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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
- 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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