Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations

Social experiments have been widely utilised in evaluations of social programmes in the US to identify ‘what works’, whilst in the UK their use is more controversial. This paper explores the paradigmatic, technical and practical issues evaluators confront in using randomised experiments to evaluate...

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Main Author: Stafford, B.
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2002
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/732/