Social Experiments: Evaluating Public Programs With Experimental Methods

by Larry L. Orr

Written in a friendly, how-to manner, Social Experiments provides a basic understanding of how to design and implement social experiments and how to interpret their results. Through illustrative examples, the author provides a grounding in the experimental method and gives advice designs that best address alternative policy questions; maximizing the precision of the estimates; implementing the experiment in the field; data collection; estimating and interpreting program impacts, costs, and benefits; dealing with biases; and the use and misuse of experimental results in the policy process.

280 pages, Paperback

First published October 16, 1998

Reviews

[Fatima · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read at Abt Bethesda in 2007

[Veronica · Rating 4 out of 5]

a step by step guide to conducting an experiment. Really great at explaining all the steps & reasons behind them.