Thad Dunning (Connecticut Yale University)

Broschiertes Buch

Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

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

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