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The digest of social experiments

Author

Greenberg, David H.

Title

The digest of social experiments / David Greenberg and Mark Shroder.

Format

Book

Edition

3rd ed.

Published

Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2004.

Description

xx, 498 p. ; 28 cm.

URL

<Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004002066.html

Other contributors

Shroder, Mark.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• An overview of social experimentation and the Digest
• Public assistance recipients : AFDC and TANF
• Public assistance recipients : food stamps and Medicaid
• Firms and organizations
• Middle-class and employee populations
• Low-income households (general)
• Lower-income homeowners
• Low-income children and their families
• Low-income youth
• Low-income single/teen parents
• Unemployed workers
• Homeless people
• Charged/convicted individuals
• Substance abusers
• Frail elderly
• Nonelderly people with disabilities
• Multiple groups
• Africa
• Asia-Pacific
• Canada
• Continental Europe
• Latin America
• United Kingdom
• The social experiment market
• A postscript.

Summary

"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 population, 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"--p. 3.

Subject headings

Evaluation research (Social action programs)--United States. Public welfare administration--United States. Human services--United States. United States--Social policy.

ISBN

0877667225 (alk. paper)