Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects
of programs or policies. In the last two decades, much research has been done on the …

Concern about taxpayer noncompliance by politicians, social theorists, and scholars in not
misplaced. From a policy perspective, the magnitude of the problem in considerable. The …

A decade ago, the Society of Prevention Research (SPR) endorsed a set of standards for
evidence related to research on prevention interventions. These standards (Flay et al …

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides readers with a
comprehensive methodology of public policy analysis. Starting from the premise that policy …

Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small‐to‐large impacts on
children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten …

The Second Edition of Practical Program Evaluation shows readers how to systematically
identify stakeholders' needs in order to select the evaluation options best suited to meet …

This book demonstrates how to use multilevel and longitudinal modeling techniques
available in the IBM SPSS mixed-effects program (MIXED). Annotated screen shots provide …

Featuring engaging examples from diverse disciplines, this book explains how to use
modern approaches to quasi-experimentation to derive credible estimates of treatment …

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the
analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using …

This paper provides an introduction and “user guide” to Regression Discontinuity (RD)
designs for empirical researchers. It presents the basic theory behind the research design …