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field experiments and their critics
Essays on the Uses
and Abuses of
Experimentation in
the Social Sciences
Edited by
Dawn Langan Teele
New Haven & London
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Field experiments and their critics : essays on the uses and abuses of
experimentation in the social sciences / edited by Dawn Langan Teele.
pages cm. — (The Yale ISPS series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-300-16940-9 (alk. paper)
1. Social sciences—Research—Methodology. I. Teele, Dawn Langan,
1983–
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
Introduction 1
DAWN LANGAN TEELE
1. The Illusion of Learning from Observational Research 9
ALAN S. GERBER, DONALD P. GREEN, AND EDWARD H. KAPLAN
2. A Defense of Observational Research 33
SUSAN C. STOKES
3. A Retreat from Radical Skepticism: Rebalancing Theory,
Observational Data, and Randomization in Development
Economics 58
CHRISTOPHER B. BARRETT AND MICHAEL R. CARTER
4. The Experimental Approach to Development Economics 78
ABHIJIT V. BANERJEE AND ESTHER DUFLO
5. Refl ections on the Ethics of Field Experiments 115
DAWN LANGAN TEELE
6. Instruments, Randomization, and Learning About
Development 141
ANGUS DEATON
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7. Experimental Reasoning in Social Science 185
ANDREW GELMAN
8. Misunderstandings Between Experimentalists and
Observationalists About Causal Inference 196
KOSUKE IMAI, GARY KING, AND ELIZABETH A. STUART
9. Methods Are Like People: If You Focus Only on What They
Can’t Do, You Will Always Be Disappointed 228
IAN SHAPIRO
References 243
Contributors 267
Index 269
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