Thad Dunning (Connecticut Yale University)

Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides scholars and students with the first comprehensive guide to the use and evaluation of natural experiments â an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. It introduces the key issues in causal inference, including model specification, and emphasizes the importance of strong research design over complex statistical analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781107698000
• ISBN-10: 1107698006
• Artikelnr.: 35911272

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: why natural experiments?; Part I. Discovering Natural Experiments: 2. Standard natural experiments; 3. Regression-discontinuity designs; 4. Instrumental-variables designs; Part II. Analyzing Natural Experiments: 5. Simplicity and transparency: keys to quantitative analysis; 6. Sampling processes and standard errors; 7. The central role of qualitative evidence; Part III. Evaluating Natural Experiments: 8. How plausible is as-if random?; 9. How credible is the model?; 10. How relevant is the intervention?; Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Building strong research designs through multi-method research.

Rezensionen

'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