NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Social Experimentation

Jerry A. Hausman and David A. Wise, eds.

Published in 1985 by University of Chicago Press
© 1985 by the National Bureau of Economic Research

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0292 pages
ISBN: 0-226-31940-7

Table of Contents

1. Front matter to "Social Experimentation": (p. -9 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Introduction to "Social Experimentation": Jerry A. Hausman, David A. Wise (p. 1 - 10) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. The Residential Electricity Time-of-Use Pricing Experiments: What Have We Learned?: Dennis Aigner (p. 11 - 54) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned?: Harvey S. Rosen (p. 55 - 94) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies: Frank Stafford (p. 95 - 144) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Macroexperiments versus Microexperiments for Health Policy: Jeffrey E. Harris (p. 145 - 186) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis: Jerry A. Hausman, David A. Wise (p. 187 - 220) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Toward Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Social Experiments: Frederick Mosteller, Milton Weinstein (p. 221 - 250) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. The Use of Information in the Policy Process: Are Social-Policy Experiments Worthwhile?: David Mundel (p. 251 - 256) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. Social Science Analysis and the Formulation of Public Policy: Illustrations of What the President "Knows" and How He Comes to "Know" It: Ernest W. Stromsdorfer (p. 257 - 282) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. List of Contributors: (p. 283 - 284) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. Author Index: (p. 285 - 287) (bibliographic info) (download)

13. Subject Index: (p. 288 - 292) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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