Thad Dunning

Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive guide to natural experiments, providing an ideal introduction for scholars and students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9781107017665
• ISBN-10: 1107017661
• Artikelnr.: 36147490

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.