Social Policy Experimentation
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Evaluation Review
- Vol. 9 (4) , 387-429
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841x8500900401
Abstract
We review the argumentsfor and against randomized field experiments design to address important questions of social policy. Based on this review, we make a number of recommendations about how the use of randomized field experiments might be fostered.Keywords
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