LEADER 04807nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910808030203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-22356-5 010 $a9786611223564 010 $a0-226-31942-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226319421 035 $a(CKB)1000000000411956 035 $a(EBL)408464 035 $a(OCoLC)476229174 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247441 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200238 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247441 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10195921 035 $a(PQKB)11728782 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408464 035 $a(DE-B1597)535834 035 $a(OCoLC)781254204 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226319421 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408464 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10216953 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL122356 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000411956 100 $a19840703d1985 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSocial experimentation /$fedited by Jerry A. Hausman and David A. Wise 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1985 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 225 1 $aA Conference report / National Bureau of Economic Research 300 $aPapers presented at a conference held in 1981 sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research. 311 0 $a0-226-31940-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographies and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Residential Electricity Time-of-Use Pricing Experiments: What Have We Learned? --$t2. Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned? --$t3. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies --$t4. Macroexperiments versus Microexperiments for Health Policy --$t5. Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis --$t6. Toward Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Social Experiments --$t7. The Use of Information in the Policy Process: Are Social-Policy Experiments Worthwhile? --$t8. Social Science Analysis and the Formulation of Public Policy: Illustrations of What the President "Knows" and How He Comes to "Know" It --$tContributors --$tAuthor Index --$tSubject Index 330 $aSince 1970 the United States government has spent over half a billion dollars on social experiments intended to assess the effect of potential tax policies, health insurance plans, housing subsidies, and other programs. Was it worth it? Was anything learned from these experiments that could not have been learned by other, and cheaper, means? Could the experiments have been better designed or analyzed? These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to this volume, the result of a conference on social experimentation sponsored in 1981 by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The first section of the book looks at four types of experiments and what each accomplished. Frank P. Stafford examines the negative income tax experiments, Dennis J. Aigner considers the experiments with electricity pricing based on time of use, Harvey S. Rosen evaluates housing allowance experiments, and Jeffrey E. Harris reports on health experiments. In the second section, addressing experimental design and analysis, Jerry A. Hausman and David A. Wise highlight the absence of random selection of participants in social experiments, Frederick Mosteller and Milton C. Weinstein look specifically at the design of medical experiments, and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer examines the effects of experiments on policy. Each chapter is followed by the commentary of one or more distinguished economists. 410 0$aConference report (National Bureau of Economic Research) 606 $aElectric utilities$xRates$xTime-of-use pricing$zUnited States$xEvaluation$vCongresses 606 $aEvaluation research (Social action programs)$vCongresses 606 $aHousing subsidies$zUnited States$xEvaluation$vCongresses 606 $aMedical policy$zUnited States$xEvaluation$vCongresses 606 $aNegative income tax$zUnited States$xEvaluation$vCongresses 615 0$aElectric utilities$xRates$xTime-of-use pricing$xEvaluation 615 0$aEvaluation research (Social action programs) 615 0$aHousing subsidies$xEvaluation 615 0$aMedical policy$xEvaluation 615 0$aNegative income tax$xEvaluation 676 $a361.6072 701 $aHausman$b Jerry A$027831 701 $aWise$b David A$0124389 712 02$aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808030203321 996 $aSocial experimentation$94008812 997 $aUNINA