Social Experimentation

300 pages
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6.00 x 9.00
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© 1985
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Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Jerry A. Hausman and David A. Wise
1. The Residential Electricity Time-of-Use Pricing Experiments: What Have We Learned?
Dennis J. Aigner
Comment: Paul L. Joskow
Comment: Lester D. Taylor
2. Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned?
Harvey S. Rosen
Comment: John M. Quigley
Comment: Gregory K. Ingram
3. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies
Frank P. Stafford
Comment: Sherwin Rosen
Comment: Zvi Griliches
4. Macroexperiments versus Microexperiments for Health Policy
Jeffrey E. Harris
Comment: Paul B. Ginsburg
Comment: Lawrence L. Orr
5. Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis
Jerry A. Hausman and David A. Wise
Comment: John Conlisk
Comment: Daniel L. McFadden
6. Toward Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Social Experiments
Frederick Mosteller and Milton C. Weinstein
Comment: Joseph B. Kadane
7. The Use of Information in the Policy Process: Are Social-Policy Experiments Worthwhile?
David S. Mundel
8. Social Science Analysis and the Formulation of Public Policy: Illustrations of What the President "Knows" and How He Comes to "Know" It
Ernst W. Stromsdorfer
Comment: Henry Aaron
Comment: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
Jerry A. Hausman and David A. Wise
1. The Residential Electricity Time-of-Use Pricing Experiments: What Have We Learned?
Dennis J. Aigner
Comment: Paul L. Joskow
Comment: Lester D. Taylor
2. Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned?
Harvey S. Rosen
Comment: John M. Quigley
Comment: Gregory K. Ingram
3. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies
Frank P. Stafford
Comment: Sherwin Rosen
Comment: Zvi Griliches
4. Macroexperiments versus Microexperiments for Health Policy
Jeffrey E. Harris
Comment: Paul B. Ginsburg
Comment: Lawrence L. Orr
5. Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis
Jerry A. Hausman and David A. Wise
Comment: John Conlisk
Comment: Daniel L. McFadden
6. Toward Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Social Experiments
Frederick Mosteller and Milton C. Weinstein
Comment: Joseph B. Kadane
7. The Use of Information in the Policy Process: Are Social-Policy Experiments Worthwhile?
David S. Mundel
8. Social Science Analysis and the Formulation of Public Policy: Illustrations of What the President "Knows" and How He Comes to "Know" It
Ernst W. Stromsdorfer
Comment: Henry Aaron
Comment: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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