Field experiments and their critics : essays on the uses and abuses of experimentation in the social sciences /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Teele, Dawn Langan, 1983- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014] |
| Series: | Yale ISPS series.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Illusion of Learning from Observational Research
- 2. A Defense of Observational Research
- 3. A Retreat from Radical Skepticism: Rebalancing Theory, Observational Data, and Randomization in Development Economics
- 4. The Experimental Approach to Development Economics
- 5. Reflections on the Ethics of Field Experiments
- 6. Instruments, Randomization, and Learning About Development
- 7. Experimental Reasoning in Social Science
- 8. Misunderstandings Between Experimentalists and Observationalists About Causal Inference
- 9. Methods Are Like People: If You Focus Only on What They Can't Do, You Will Always Be Disappointed
- References
- Contributors
- Index