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)

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)

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)

米歇尔·刘易斯-伯克 美国爱荷华大学政治科学系温德尔·米勒（F. Wendell Miller）杰出及讲席教授。自1988年以来，他一直在主持SAGE出版社的“社会科学定量研究应用丛书（Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences，QASS）”的编写。此外，他还是《法国政治学》（French Politics）杂志的编辑并曾担任过《美国政治学杂志》（American Journal of Political Science）的编辑。他独著或与他人合著的专著或文章有110多部（篇）。他在方法方面的出版物包括《实用回归法导论》（Applied Regression: An Introduction）和《数据分析导论》（Data Analysis: An Introduction）。他在政治科学的诸多领域...(展开全部)

米歇尔·刘易斯-伯克 美国爱荷华大学政治科学系温德尔·米勒（F. Wendell Miller）杰出及讲席教授。自1988年以来，他一直在主持SAGE出版社的“社会科学定量研究应用丛书（Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences，QASS）”的编写。此外，他还是《法国政治学》（French Politics）杂志的编辑并曾担任过《美国政治学杂志》（American Journal of Political Science）的编辑。他独著或与他人合著的专著或文章有110多部（篇）。他在方法方面的出版物包括《实用回归法导论》（Applied Regression: An Introduction）和《数据分析导论》（Data Analysis: An Introduction）。他在政治科学的诸多领域...(展开全部)

Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are rarely informed by evidence on the consequences of these initiatives in other settings. Nor are decisions typically accompanied by well-formulated plans to evaluate their causal impacts. As a result, know...(展开全部)