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(Number (ISBN

0199753865 (hardback)

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9780199753864 (hardback)

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b511105

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[Book]

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improving causal inference in educational and social science research /

First Statement of Responsibility

Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

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xv, 397 p. :

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ill. ;

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25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The challenge for educational research -- The importance of theory -- Designing research to address causal questions -- Investigator-designed randomized experiments -- Challenges in designing, implementing, and learning from randomized experiments -- Statistical power and sample size -- Experimental research when participants are clustered within intact groups -- Using natural experiments to provide "arguably exogenous" treatment variability -- Estimating causal effects using a regression-discontinuity approach -- Introducing instrumental-variables estimation -- Using IVE to recover the treatment effect in a quasi-experiment -- Dealing with bias in treatment effects estimated from nonexperimental data -- Methodological lessons from the long quest -- Substantive lessons and new questions

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Education-- Research-- Methodology

Quantitative research

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Murnane, Richard J

Willett, John B

Date of Transaction

20101029154248.0

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