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Thad Dunning - Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Del i serien Strategies for Social Inquiry

Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

A Design-Based Approach

Av Thad Dunning

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This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides an introduction to key issues in causal inference, including model specification, and emphasizes the importance of strong research design over complex statistical analysis. Surveying many examples of standard natural experiments, regression-discontinuity designs, and instrumental-variables designs, Dunning highlights both the strengths and potential weaknesses of these methods, aiding researchers in better harnessing the promise of natural experiments while avoiding the pitfalls. Dunning also demonstrates the contribution of qualitative methods to natural experiments and proposes new ways to integrate qualitative and quantitative techniques. Chapters complete with exercises and appendices covering specialized topics such as cluster-randomized natural experiments, make this an ideal teaching tool as well as a valuable book for professional researchers.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-09-06
  • Mått: 174 x 245 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 750 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Strategies for Social Inquiry
  • Antal sidor: 176
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107698000
  • Utmärkelser: Best Book Award, APSA Organized Section on Experimental Research 2013
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Thad Dunning is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University and a research fellow at Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has written on a range of methodological topics, including impact evaluation, econometric corrections for selection effects and multi-method research in the social sciences, and his first book, Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 2008), won the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association.

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'Dunning has produced a useful and remarkably accessible guide for social scientists of all sorts. I especially like his guide to discovering natural experiments.' J. D. Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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