Title Social experimentation / edited by Jerry A. Hausman and David A. Wise

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1985

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) : illustrations Series A Conference report / National Bureau of Economic Research Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research) Contents Social Experimentation; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Residential Electricity Time-of-Use Pricing Experiments: What Have We Learned?; 2. Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned?; 3. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies; 4. Macroexperiments versus Microexperiments for Health Policy; 5. Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis; 6. Toward Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Social Experiments 7. The Use of Information in the Policy Process: Are Social-Policy Experiments Worthwhile?8. Social Science Analysis and the Formulation of Public Policy: Illustrations of What the President "Knows" and How He Comes to "Know" It; List of Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index Summary Since 1970 the United States government has spent over half a billion dollars on social experiments intended to assess the effect of potential tax policies, health insurance plans, housing subsidies, and other programs. Was it worth it? Was anything learned from these experiments that could not have been learned by other, and cheaper, means? Could the experiments have been better designed or analyzed? These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to this volume, the result of a conference on social experimentation sponsored in 1981 by the National Bureau of Economic Resear Analysis United States Government Social policies Effectiveness Assessment Notes Papers presented at a conference held in 1981 sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- Congresses Negative income tax -- United States -- Evaluation -- Congresses Electric utilities -- Rates -- Time-of-use pricing -- United States -- Evaluation -- Congresses Housing subsidies -- United States -- Evaluation -- Congresses Medical policy -- United States -- Evaluation -- Congresses Evaluation Studies as Topic POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services. Electric utilities -- Rates -- Time-of-use pricing -- Evaluation Evaluation research (Social action programs) Housing subsidies -- Evaluation Medical policy -- Evaluation Negative income tax -- Evaluation Experimenten. Overheidsbeleid. Evaluatie. Recherche évaluative (programmes d'action sociale) -- Congrès. Impôt négatif sur le revenu -- États-Unis -- Évaluation -- Congrès. United States Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Hausman, Jerry A. Wise, David A. National Bureau of Economic Research. ISBN 9780226319421 0226319423 1281223565 9781281223562 9786611223564 6611223568

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