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100 1 _aMurnane, Richard J.
245 1 0 _aMethods matter :
_h[manuscript] :
_bimproving causal inference in educational and social science research /
_cRichard J. Murnane, John B. Willett.
260 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2011.
300 _axv, 397 p. :
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_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe challenge for educational research -- The importance of theory -- Designing research to address causal questions -- Investigator-designed randomized experiments -- Challenges in designing, implementing, and learning from randomized experiments -- Statistical power and sample size -- Experimental research 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.
650 0 _aEducation
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_xMethodology.
650 0 _aQuantitative research.
700 1 _aWillett, John B.
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