Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research

by John B. Willett, Richard J. Murnane, John Willett

Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are rarely informed by evidence on the consequences of these initiatives in other settings. Nor are decisions typically accompanied by well-formulated plans to evaluate their causal impacts. As a result, knowledge about what works in different situations has been very slow to accumulate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199753865
• ISBN13: 9780199753864
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"