| Description |
233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
002-7162 ;
v. 589
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 589.
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| Note |
"September 2003" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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 -- 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.] |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Methodology. |
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Sociology -- Methodology.
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Sociology -- Methodology. |
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Social sciences -- Statistical methods.
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Social sciences -- Statistical methods. |
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Sociology -- Statistical methods.
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Sociology -- Statistical methods. |
| Added Author |
Sherman, Lawrence W.
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| ISBN |
0761928588 paper |
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076192857X cloth |
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