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Show full pageMethods matter : improving causal inference in educational and social science research / Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett.
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- Author/Creator:
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Murnane, Richard J.
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Format:
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- Book
- xv, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-379) and index.
- Contents:
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- The challenge for educational research
- The importance of theory
- Designing research to address causal questions
- Investigator-designed randomized experiments
- Challenges in designing, implementing, and learning from randomized experiments
- Statistical power and sample size
- Experimental research when participants are clustered within intact groups
- Using natural experiments to provide "arguably exogenous" treatment variability
- Estimating causal effects using a regression-discontinuity approach
- Introducing instrumental-variables estimation
- Using IVE to recover the treatment effect in a quasi-experiment
- Dealing with bias in treatment effects estimated from nonexperimental data
- Methodological lessons from the long quest
- Substantive lessons and new questions.
- Contributor:
- Willett, John B.
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- ISBN:
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9780199753864
0199753865
- Catkey: 8725752
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