Did mandatory busing programs in the 1970s increase the school achievement of disadvantaged minority youth? Does obtaining a college degree increase an individual's labor market earnings? Did the use of the butterfly ballot in some Florida counties in the 2000 presidential election cost Al Gore votes? If so, was the number of miscast votes sufficiently large to have altered th...(展开全部)

Did mandatory busing programs in the 1970s increase the school achievement of disadvantaged minority youth? Does obtaining a college degree increase an individual's labor market earnings? Did the use of the butterfly ballot in some Florida counties in the 2000 presidential election cost Al Gore votes? If so, was the number of miscast votes sufficiently large to have altered th...(展开全部)

A nontechnical guide to the basic ideas of modern causal inference, with illustrations from health, the economy, and public policy. Which of two antiviral drugs does the most to save people infected with Ebola virus? Does a daily glass of wine prolong or shorten life? Does winning the lottery make you more or less likely to go bankrupt? How do you identify genes that cause dise...(展开全部)

夏林清教授简介 现任台湾辅仁大学心理学系教授兼系主任，1974年获国立政治大学教育系学士学位，1978年获美国宾州州立大学谘商教育专业硕士学位，1984年获美国哈佛大学谘商与谘询心理学专业硕士学位，1992年获 美国哈佛大学谘商与谘询心理学专业博士学位。 夏林清教授曾接受过美国National Training Laboratory的团体领导力训练、Asia-South Pacific Bureau for Adult Education (ASPBAE)的参与研究方法训练以及美国East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy的社会治疗训练等专业训练，为团体动力协会、台北市劳工教育资讯发展中心、粉领联盟、性工作者关怀互助协会(日日春协会)、中华民国行动研究学会等多个民间团体的创始人，并担任台北市财团法...(展开全部)

This long awaited successor of the original Cook/Campbell Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings represents updates in the field over the last two decades. The book covers four major topics in field experimentation:

The tools of design research, writes Brenda Laurel, will allow designers "to claim and direct the power of their profession." Often neglected in the various curricula of design schools, the new models of design research described in this book help designers to investigate people, form, and process in ways that can make their work more potent and more delightful. "At the very le...(展开全部)

Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a “math camp” or a semesterlong or yearlong course to acquire the necessary skills. The problem is that most available textbooks are written for mathematics or economics majors, and fail to convey to s...(展开全部)