Field experiments and their critics [Texte imprimé] : essays on the uses and abuses of experimentation in the social sciences / edited by Dawn Langan Teele

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Preface -- Introduction / Dawn L. Teele -- The illusion of learning from observational research / Alan Gerber, Donald Green, and Edward Kaplan -- A defense of observational research / Susan Stokes -- A retreat from radical skepticism : rebalancing theory, measurement, and randomization in development economics / Christopher B. Barrett and Michael R. Carter -- The experimental approach to development economics / Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo -- Reflections on the ethics of field experiments / Dawn L. Teele -- Instruments, randomization, and learning about development / Angus Deaton -- Experimental reasoning in social science / Andrew Gelman -- Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference / Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth A. Stuart -- Methods are like people : if you focus only on what they can't do, you will always be disappointed / Ian Shapiro -- References -- Contributors -- Index