Natural Experiments

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674076729
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Experiments of History written by Jared Diamond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has to devise other methods of observing, describing, and explaining the world. In the historical disciplines, a fruitful approach has been to use natural experiments or the comparative method. This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science. The studies cover a spectrum of approaches, ranging from a non-quantitative narrative style in the early chapters to quantitative statistical analyses in the later chapters. The studies range from a simple two-way comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, to comparisons of 81 Pacific islands and 233 areas of India. The societies discussed are contemporary ones, literate societies of recent centuries, and non-literate past societies. Geographically, they include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, western Europe, tropical Africa, India, Siberia, Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands. In an Afterword, the editors discuss how to cope with methodological problems common to these and other natural experiments of history.

Author : Thad Dunning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017661
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences written by Thad Dunning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive guide to natural experiments, providing an ideal introduction for scholars and students.

Author : Judith A. Layzer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262622149
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Experiments written by Judith A. Layzer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBM entails collaborative, landscape-scale planning and flexible, adaptive implementation.

Author : James N. Druckman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108478506
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Experimental Political Science written by James N. Druckman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel collection of essays addressing contemporary trends in political science, covering a broad array of methodological and substantive topics.

Author : Steven Durlauf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230280811
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microeconometrics written by Steven Durlauf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.

Author : Robert G. B. Reid
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262264420
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biological Emergences written by Robert G. B. Reid and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology. Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the fundamental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go unanswered by today's neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of the evolutionary paradigm will encourage creationists and proponents of intelligent design. In Biological Emergences, Robert Reid argues that natural selection is not the cause of evolution. He writes that the causes of variations, which he refers to as natural experiments, are independent of natural selection; indeed, he suggests, natural selection may get in the way of evolution. Reid proposes an alternative theory to explain how emergent novelties are generated and under what conditions they can overcome the resistance of natural selection. He suggests that what causes innovative variation causes evolution, and that these phenomena are environmental as well as organismal. After an extended critique of selectionism, Reid constructs an emergence theory of evolution, first examining the evidence in three causal arenas of emergent evolution: symbiosis/association, evolutionary physiology/behavior, and developmental evolution. Based on this evidence of causation, he proposes some working hypotheses, examining mechanisms and processes common to all three arenas, and arrives at a theoretical framework that accounts for generative mechanisms and emergent qualities. Without selectionism, Reid argues, evolutionary innovation can more easily be integrated into a general thesis. Finally, Reid proposes a biological synthesis of rapid emergent evolutionary phases and the prolonged, dynamically stable, non-evolutionary phases imposed by natural selection.

Author : Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781402724121
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature Science Experiments written by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instructions for science experiments that use common materials and teach about a variety of nature-related topics, such as DNA collecting and carnivorous plants.

Author : Thad Dunning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560794
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences written by Thad Dunning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides an introduction to key issues in causal inference, including model specification, and emphasizes the importance of strong research design over complex statistical analysis. Surveying many examples of standard natural experiments, regression-discontinuity designs, and instrumental-variables designs, Dunning highlights both the strengths and potential weaknesses of these methods, aiding researchers in better harnessing the promise of natural experiments while avoiding the pitfalls. Dunning also demonstrates the contribution of qualitative methods to natural experiments and proposes new ways to integrate qualitative and quantitative techniques. Chapters complete with exercises and appendices covering specialized topics such as cluster-randomized natural experiments, make this an ideal teaching tool as well as a valuable book for professional researchers.

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book Causal Inferences in Natural Experiments: Some Complications in Matching Designs written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael W. Eysenck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781841693781
Total Pages : 384 pages
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