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Title Field experiments and their critics : essays on the uses and abuses of experimentation in the social sciences / edited by Dawn Langan Teele.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Yale ISPS series
Yale ISPS series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Teele, Dawn Langan, 1983-
Other Form: Print version: Teele, Dawn Langan. Field Experiments and Their Critics. Yale University Press 2014 1306370485
ISBN 1306370485 (electronic book)
9781306370486 (electronic book)
9780300199307 (electronic book)
0300199309 (electronic book)
9780300169409 (alkaline paper)
030016940X (alkaline paper)