Social Experiments

Written in a friendly how-to manner Social Experiments provides a basic understanding of how to design and implement social experiments and how to interpret their results. Through illustrative examples the author provides a grounding in the experimental method and gives advice on: designs that best address alternative policy questions; maximizing the precision of the estimates; implementing the experiment in the field; data collection; estimating and interpreting program impacts costs and benefits; dealing with biases; and the use and misuse of experimental results in the policy process.