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29 produkter
Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change
Summary of a Workshop
Av National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
729 kr
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Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs
What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us
Av National Research Council, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
997 kr
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How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to combat the destructive effects of illegal drug use. Yet there is a remarkable paucity of data and research information that policy makers require if …
Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs
What We Don''t Know Keeps Hurting Us
Av Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs, Committee on Law and Justice m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
1159 kr
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How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to combat the destructive effects of illegal drug use. Yet there is a remarkable paucity of data and research information that policy makers require if …
Assessment of Two Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Cocaine Control Policy
Av Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
E-bok, 1999
428 kr
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This study is an important first step in the development of a national policy on illegal drugs. It assesses two recent cost-effectiveness studies on cocaine control policy: one by RAND, Controlling Cocaine: Supply Versus Demand Programs , and the other by the Institute of Defense Analyses, An …
Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform
Summary of a Workshop
Av Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
E-bok, 1999
428 kr
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This report was prepared in response to a request from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It summarizes the discussions at a February 1998 workshop convened by the Committee on National Statistics; the Board on Children, Youth, and Families; and the …
Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs
What We Don''t Know Keeps Hurting Us
Av Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs, Committee on Law and Justice m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
821 kr
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How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to combat the destructive effects of illegal drug use. Yet there is a remarkable paucity of data and research information that policy makers require if …
Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform
Summary of a Workshop
Av Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
E-bok, 1999
288 kr
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This report was prepared in response to a request from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It summarizes the discussions at a February 1998 workshop convened by the Committee on National Statistics; the Board on Children, Youth, and Families; and the …
Assessment of Two Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Cocaine Control Policy
Av Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
E-bok, 1999
295 kr
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This study is an important first step in the development of a national policy on illegal drugs. It assesses two recent cost-effectiveness studies on cocaine control policy: one by RAND, Controlling Cocaine: Supply Versus Demand Programs , and the other by the Institute of Defense Analyses, An …
Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change
Summary of a Workshop
Av Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
E-bok, 1998
468 kr
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Partial Identification of Probability Distributions
Inbunden, 2003
1532 kr
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Sample data alone never suffice to draw conclusions about populations. Inference always requires assumptions about the population and sampling process. Statistical theory has revealed much about how strength of assumptions affects the precision of point estimates, but has had much less to say about …
Partial Identification of Probability Distributions
E-bok, 2006
1948 kr
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Sample data alone never suffice to draw conclusions about populations. Inference always requires assumptions about the population and sampling process. Statistical theory has revealed much about how strength of assumptions affects the precision of point estimates, but has had much less to say about …
Identification for Prediction and Decision
Inbunden, 2008
862 kr
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This book is a full-scale exposition of Charles Manski's new methodology for analyzing empirical questions in the social sciences. He recommends that researchers first ask what can be learned from data alone, and then ask what can be learned when data are combined with credible weak assumptions. …
Public Policy in an Uncertain World
Analysis and Decisions
Inbunden, 2013
520 kr
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Public policy advocates routinely assert that “research has shown” a particular policy to be desirable. But how reliable is the analysis in the research they invoke? And how does that analysis affect the way policy is made, on issues ranging from vaccination to minimum wage to FDA drug approval? …
Identification Problems in the Social Sciences
Häftad, 1999
394 kr
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This book provides a language and a set of tools for finding bounds on the predictions that social and behavioral scientists can logically make from nonexperimental and experimental data. The economist Charles Manski draws on examples from criminology, demography, epidemiology, social psychology, …
Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response
Inbunden, 2005
1551 kr
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Economists have long sought to learn the effect of a "treatment" on some outcome of interest, just as doctors do with their patients. A central practical objective of research on treatment response is to provide decision makers with information useful in choosing treatments. Often the decision …
Patient Care under Uncertainty
Inbunden, 2019
435 kr
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How cutting-edge economics can improve decision-making methods for doctorsAlthough uncertainty is a common element of patient care, it has largely been overlooked in research on evidence-based medicine. Patient Care under Uncertainty strives to correct this glaring omission. Applying the tools of …
Patient Care under Uncertainty
E-bok, 2019
604 kr
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How cutting-edge economics can improve decision-making methods for doctors Although uncertainty is a common element of patient care, it has largely been overlooked in research on evidence-based medicine. Patient Care under Uncertainty strives to correct this glaring omission. Applying the tools of …
Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response
E-bok, 2020
1207 kr
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Economists have long sought to learn the effect of a "treatment" on some outcome of interest, just as doctors do with their patients. A central practical objective of research on treatment response is to provide decision makers with information useful in choosing treatments. Often the decision …
Elicitation of Preferences
Av Baruch Fischhoff, Charles F. Manski
Inbunden, 2000
1065 kr
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Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences. Economists, who have made preference the central primitive in their thinking about human behavior, have for the most part rejected elicitation and have instead sought to …
Discourse on Social Planning under Uncertainty
Häftad, 2025
458 kr
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Economists have long studied policy choice by social planners aiming to maximize population welfare. Whether performing theoretical studies or applied analyses, researchers have generally assumed that the planner knows enough about the choice environment to be able to determine an optimal action. …
Discourse on Social Planning under Uncertainty
Inbunden, 2025
1442 kr
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Economists have long studied policy choice by social planners aiming to maximize population welfare. Whether performing theoretical studies or applied analyses, researchers have generally assumed that the planner knows enough about the choice environment to be able to determine an optimal action. …
Partial Identification of Probability Distributions
Häftad, 2011
1532 kr
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Sample data alone never suffice to draw conclusions about populations. Inference always requires assumptions about the population and sampling process. Statistical theory has revealed much about how strength of assumptions affects the precision of point estimates, but has had much less to say about …
Elicitation of Preferences
Av Baruch Fischhoff, Charles F. Manski
Häftad, 2010
1129 kr
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Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences. Economists, who have made preference the central primitive in their thinking about human behavior, have for the most part rejected elicitation and have instead sought to …
Elicitation of Preferences
Av Charles F. Manski, Baruch Fischhoff
E-bok, 2013
1502 kr
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Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences. Economists, who have made preference the central primitive in their thinking about human behavior, have for the most part rejected elicitation and have instead sought to …
Assessment of Two Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Cocaine Control Policy
Av National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
1205 kr
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This study is an important first step in the development of a national policy on illegal drugs. It assesses two recent cost-effectiveness studies on cocaine control policy: one by RAND, Controlling Cocaine: Supply Versus Demand Programs, and the other by the Institute of Defense Analyses, An …
Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform
Summary of a Workshop
Av National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
1241 kr
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This report was prepared in response to a request from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It summarizes the discussions at a February 1998 workshop convened by the Committee on National Statistics; the Board on Children, Youth, and Families; and the …
Economics to Econometrics
Inbunden, 2008
844 kr
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The original research papers collected in this volume continue the development of discrete choice analysis, of related structural models for analysis of choice behavior, and of the statistical theory used in inference on these models. Most papers in the volume are revised versions of ones presented …
