Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences

In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed to precisely infer causal effects through active intervention in the social world. Some scholars claim that field experiments represent a new gold standard and the best way forward, while others insist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030016940X
• ISBN13: 9780300169409
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"