The Digest of Social Experiments
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780877667223
Subjects: Social Science; United States; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; General; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Social policy; Public welfare administration; Evaluation research (Social action programs); Evaluation research (Social ac; Human services
Description: "Contains brief summaries of 240 known completed social experiments. Each summary outlines the cost and time frame of the demonstration, the treatments tested, outcomes of interest, sample sizes and target populations, research components, major findings, important methodological limitations and design issues encountered, and other relevant topics. In addition, very brief outlines of 21 experiments and one quasi experiment still in progress [as of April 2003] are also provided"--Page 3.