INDICE: I. Preface Maureen A. Pirog. II. The State of Social Experimentation and Program Evaluation Maureen A. Pirog. III. Social Experiments Versus Quasi-Experiments. The Role of Random Assignment in Social Policy Research RichardP. Nathan. The Role of Random Assignment in Social Policy Research Robinson Hollister. Nathan Response to Robinson Hollisters Opening StatementRichard P. Nathan. Hollister Response to Richard Nathans Opening StatementRobinson Hollister. Do Experimental and Nonexperimental Evaluations Give Different Answers About the Effectiveness of Government-Funded Training Programs?David H. Greenberg, Charles Michalopoulos, and Philip K. Robins. How Close is Close Enough? Evaluating Propensity Score Matching Using Data from a Class Size Reduction Experiment Elizabeth Ty Wilde and Robinson Hollister. Three Conditions under which Experiments and Observational Studies Produce Comparable Causal Estimates: New findings from within-study comparisons 27(4) Thomas D. Cook, William R. Shadish, and Vivian C. Wong. IV. Randomized Experiments. Impacts of Abstinence-Only Education on Teen Sexual Activity, Risk of Pregnancy, and Risk of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Barbara Devaney, Chris Trenholm, Ken Forston, Melissa Clark,Lisa Quay, and Justin Wheeler. Five-Year Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program on Marriage among Never-Married Mothers Anna Gassman-Pines and Hirokazu Yoshikawa. Alternative Routes to Teaching: The Impacts of Teach for America on Student Achievement and Other Outcomes Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer, and Paul Decker. V. Quasi-ExperimentsA. Natural Experiments. Anti-Depressants, Suicide, andDrug Regulation Jens Ludwig and Dave E. Marcotte. Lowering Blood Alcohol Content Levels to Save Lives: The European Experience Daniel Albalate. The Impact of the Family and Medical Leave Act Jane Waldfogel. The Effects of State and Local Antidiscrimination Policies on Earnings for Gays and Lesbians Marieka M. Klawitter and Victor Flatt. B. Pretests and Posttests with Comparison Groups and Selection Controls. A Cure for Crime: Can Mental Health Treatment DiversionReduce Crime among Youth? Allison Evans Cuellar, Larkin S. McReynolds, and Gail A. Wasserman. Cashing Out Food Stamps: Impacts on Food Expenditures and Diet Quality Barbara Devaney and Thomas Fraker. C. Interrupted Time Series with Comparison Groups. The Effect of Drinking Age Laws and Alcohol-Related Crashes:Time-Series Evidence from Wisconsin David N. Figlio. Evaluating the Effects of Automobile Safety Regulation John D. Graham and Steven Garber. D. Posttests Only with Comparison Groups. Does WIC Work? The Effects of WIC on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes Marianne P. Bitler and Janet Currie. The Changing Associationbetween Prenatal Participation in WIC and Birth Outcomes in New York City TedJoyce, Diane Gibson, and Silvie Colman. The Changing Association between Prenatal Participation in WIC and Birth Outcomes in New York City: What Does It Mean? Marianne P. Bitler and Janet Currie. Interpreting the WIC DEBATE. Jens Ludwig and Mathew Miller. E. Regression Discontinuity Design. An Effectiveness-Based Evaluation of Five State Pre-Kindergarten Programs Vivian C. Wong, Thomas D. Cook, W. Steven Barnett, and Kwanghee Jung. VII. Meta-Analyses. Assessing Evidence of Environmental Inequities: A Meta-Analysis Evan J. Ringquist. VIII. Implementation, Performance Management, and Program Impacts. Linking Program Implementation and Effectiveness: Lessons from a Pooled Sample of Welfare-to-Work Experiments Howard S. Bloom, Carolyn J. Hill, and James A. Riccio. Exploring the Relationship between Performance Management and Program Impact: A Case Study of the JPTA Burt S. Barnow. IX. Ethics and Human Subjects. Toward a More Public Discussion of the Ethics of Federal Social Program Evaluation Jan Blustein. The Ethics of Federal Social Program Evaluation: A Response to Blustein Burt S. Barnow. To Learn or Not to Learn Howard Rolston. Comments on Dr. Blusteins Paper, Toward a More Public Discussion of the Ethics of Federal Social Program Evaluation Peter Z. Schochet. Jan Blusteins Response Jan Blustein. X. TheUse of Program Evaluations by Policy Makers. The Dissemination and Utilization of Welfare-to-Work Experiments in State Policymaking. David Greenberg, Marvin Mandell, and Matthew Onstott
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- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
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- Fecha Publicación: 23/01/2009
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