Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response

by Charles F. Manski

Book Overview

Economists have long sought to learn the effect of a "treatment" on some outcome of interest, just as doctors do with their patients. A central practical objective of research on treatment response is to provide decision makers with information useful in choosing treatments. Often the decision maker is a social planner who must choose treatments for a heterogeneous population--for example, a physician choosing medical treatments for diverse patients...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691121532
• ISBN13: 9780691121536
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"