Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research - Hardcover

Murnane, Richard; Willett, John

 
9780199753864: Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research

Synopsis

Offers essential guidance for those who evaluate educational policies.

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About the Author

Richard J. Murnane, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at Harvard University, is an economist who focuses his research on the relationships between education and the economy, teacher labor markets, the determinants of children's achievement, and strategies for making schools more effective.

John B. Willett, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education at Harvard University, is a quantitative methodologist who has devoted his career to improving the research design and data-analytic methods used in education and the social sciences, with a particular emphasis on the design of longitudinal research and the analysis of longitudinal data .


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