Methods matter : improving causal inference in educational and social science research

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Methods matter : improving causal inference in educational and social science research

Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett

Oxford University Press, c2011

  • : hbk

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  • The challenge for educational research
  • The importance of theory
  • Designing research to address causal questions
  • Past approaches to answering causal questions in education
  • Investigator-designed randomized experiments
  • Challenges in designing, implementing, and learning from randomized experiments
  • Statistical power and sample size
  • Experimental rech 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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