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Research design in the social sciences : declaration, diagnosis, and redesign
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Research design in the social sciences : declaration, diagnosis, and redesign / Graeme Blair, Alexander Coppock, Macartan Humphreys.
ISBN
9780691199580
0691199582
9780691199573
9780691199566
Publication
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xii, 380 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 05, 2023).
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Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook 2023.
Other formats
Print version: Blair, Graeme, 1984- Research design in the social sciences Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 24, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
I. Introduction
1. Preamble
1.1 How to Read This Book
1.2 How to Work This Book
1.3 What This Book Will Not Do
2. What Is a Research Design?
2.1 MIDA: The Four Elements of a Research Design
2.2 Declaration, Diagnosis, Redesign
2.3 Example: A Decision Problem
2.4 Putting Designs to Use
3. Research Design Principles
4. Getting Started
4.1 Installing R
4.2 Declaration
4.3 Diagnosis
4.4 Redesign
4.5 Library of Designs
4.6 Long-Term Code Usability
II. Declaration, Diagnosis, Redesign
5. Declaring Designs
5.1 Definition of Research Designs
5.2 Declaration in Code
6. Specifying the Model
6.1 Elements of Models
6.2 Types of Variables in Models
6.3 How to Specify Models
6.4 Summary
7. Defining the Inquiry
7.1 Elements of Inquiries
7.2 Types of Inquiries
7.3 How to Define Inquiries
7.4 Summary
8. Crafting a Data Strategy
8.1 Elements of Data Strategies
8.2 Challenges to Data Strategies
8.3 Summary
9. Choosing an Answer Strategy
9.1 Elements of Answer Strategies
9.2 Types of Answer Strategies
9.3 How to Choose an Answer Strategy
9.4 Summary
10. Diagnosing Designs
10.1 Elements of Diagnoses
10.2 Types of Diagnosands
10.3 Estimation of Diagnosands
10.4 How to Diagnose Designs
10.5 Summary
11. Redesigning
11.1 Redesigning over Data Strategies
11.2 Redesigning over Answer Strategies
11.3 Summary
12. Design Example
12.1 Declaration in Words
12.2 Declaration in Code
12.3 Diagnosis
12.4 Redesign
13. Designing in Code
13.1 Model
13.2 Inquiry
13.3 Data Strategy
13.4 Answer Strategy
13.5 Declaration
13.6 Diagnosis
13.7 Redesign
III. Research Design Library
14. Research Design Library
15. Observational : Descriptive
15.1 Simple Random Sampling
15.2 Cluster Random Sampling
15.3 Multilevel Regression and Poststratification
15.4 Index Creation
16. Observational: Causal
16.1 Process Tracing
16.2 Selection-on-Observables
16.3 Difference-in-Differences
16.4 Instrumental Variables
16.5 Regression Discontinuity Designs
17. Experimental : Descriptive
17.1 Audit Experiments
17.2 List Experiments
17.3 Conjoint Experiments
17.4 Behavioral Games
18. Experimental : Causal
18.1 Two-Arm Randomized Experiments
18.2 Block-Randomized Experiments
18.3 Cluster-Randomized Experiments
18.4 Subgroup Designs
18.5 Factorial Experiments
18.6 Encouragement Designs
18.7 Placebo-Controlled Experiments
18.8 Stepped-Wedge Experiments
18.9 Randomized Saturation Experiments
18.10 Experiments over Networks
19. Complex Designs
19.1 Discovery Using Causal Forests
19.2 Structural Estimation
19.3 Meta-analysis
19.4 Multi-site Studies
IV. Research Design Lifecycle
20. Research Design Lifecycle
21. Planning
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