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  • Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development

    A Critical Perspective

    Edited by Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, François Roubaud ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In October 2019, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer jointly won the 51st Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for their experimental ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • The Crises of Microcredit

    by Mouhamedoune Abdoulage Fall, Cyril Fouillet, David Picherit, Florent Bédeccarats, Francois Doligez, Emmanuelle Javoy, Daniel Rozas, Fouzi Mourji, Soléne Morvant-Roux, Bert D'espallier, Jean-Yves Moisseron, Marc Roesch, Eveline Baumann ...
    Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries. Is this the end of microcredit or rather an essential step in its expansion? Should we stop microcredit altogether or rethink the way it is implemented?Drawing on extensive empirical research conducted in various parts of the world - from Morocco to Senegal to India - this ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

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  • The Autism Industrial Complex

    How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment Turned Autism into Big Business

    by Alicia A. Broderick ...
    A 2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award WinnerAutism—a concept that barely existed 75 years ago—currently feeds multiple, multi-billion-dollar-a-year, global industries.In The Autism Industrial Complex: How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment Turned Autism into Big Business, Alicia A. Broderick analyzes how we got from the 11 children first identified by Leo Kanner in 1943 as “autistic” to the ... Read more

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  • Population-Based Survey Experiments

    by Diana C. Mutz ...
    Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to random samples of the population to which a theory applies. Yet until now, there was no self ... Read more

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  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    by Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski ...
    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Empirical Legal Research

    A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators

    by Frans L. Leeuw ...
    In 1788 John Adams created a sublime ambition for all nations - 'a government of laws and not of men'. In the intervening years we have come to learn that legislation itself works through the interpretations of the many men and women who work on the inside and the outside of the law. Effective regulation thus depends not only on scrupulous legal analysis, with its appeal to precedent, conceptual ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Metrics

    What Counts in Global Health

    by Vincanne Adams ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal support, the contributors question the ability of metrics to solve global health problems. They capture a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Public Policy in an Uncertain World

    Analysis and Decisions

    by Charles F. Manski ...
    Manski argues that public policy is based on untrustworthy analysis. Failing to account for uncertainty in an uncertain world, policy analysis routinely misleads policy makers with expressions of certitude. Manski critiques the status quo and offers an innovation to improve both how policy research is conducted and how it is used by policy makers. ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Urban Health and Society

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice

    Edited by Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert ...
    Series Book 17 - Public Health/Vulnerable Populations
    Praise for Urban Health and Society"This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • Wellbeing

    Science and Policy

    by Richard Layard, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve ...
    What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing, we can now answer this question using state-of-the-art empirical evidence. This transforms our ability to base our decisions on the outcomes that matter most, namely the wellbeing of us all including future generations. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, this book shows ... Read more

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  • Evaluating the Complex

    Attribution, Contribution and Beyond

    by Mita Marra ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they have also promised that all of these initiatives will be evaluated. Due to the complexity of many of the initiatives, the ways of evaluating are becoming equally complex.The book begins with a theoretical and conceptual explanation of the process and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD