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8. Social Science Analysis and the Formulation of Public Policy: Illustrations of What the President “Knows” and How He Comes to “Know” It
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Ernst W. Stromsdorfer
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. The Residential Electricity Time-of-Use Pricing Experiments: What Have We Learned? 11
- 2. Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned? 55
- 3. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies 95
- 4. Macroexperiments versus Microexperiments for Health Policy 145
- 5. Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis 187
- 6. Toward Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Social Experiments 221
- 7. The Use of Information in the Policy Process: Are Social-Policy Experiments Worthwhile? 251
- 8. Social Science Analysis and the Formulation of Public Policy: Illustrations of What the President “Knows” and How He Comes to “Know” It 257
- Contributors 283
- Author Index 285
- Subject Index 288
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. The Residential Electricity Time-of-Use Pricing Experiments: What Have We Learned? 11
- 2. Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned? 55
- 3. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies 95
- 4. Macroexperiments versus Microexperiments for Health Policy 145
- 5. Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis 187
- 6. Toward Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Social Experiments 221
- 7. The Use of Information in the Policy Process: Are Social-Policy Experiments Worthwhile? 251
- 8. Social Science Analysis and the Formulation of Public Policy: Illustrations of What the President “Knows” and How He Comes to “Know” It 257
- Contributors 283
- Author Index 285
- Subject Index 288
