Poverty, literacy achievement, and educational reform

Marijuana and youth

Risky behavior among youths: some issues from behavioral economics / Ted O’Donoghue and Matthew Rabin — Youth smoking in the United States: evidence and implications / Jonathan Gruber and Jonathan Zinman — Teens and traffic safety / Thomas S. Dee and William N. Evans — The sexual activity and birth-control use of American Teenagers /… Continue reading Marijuana and youth

Military recruiting outlook : recent trends in enlistment propensity and conversion of potential enlisted supply

Matching estimators of causal effects: Prospects and pitfalls in theory and practice

“In this book, the counterfactual model of causality for observational data analysis is presented, and methods for causal effect estimation are demonstrated using examples from sociology, political science, and economics.”–BOOK JACKET.; Part I. Counterfactual Causality and Empirical Research in the Social Sciences — 1. Introduction — 2. The counterfactual model; Part II. Estimating Causal Effects… Continue reading Matching estimators of causal effects: Prospects and pitfalls in theory and practice

Immigrant assimilation and crime: Generational differences in youth violence in chicago

The new institutionalism in education

Environmental simulation : research and policy issues

I. Dimensions of Environmental Simulation. 1. Strategies of Environmental Simulation: Theoretical, Methodological, and Policy Issues / Daniel Stokols. 2. Simulation for Planning and Design: A Review of Strategy and Technique / Colin Clipson — II. Design and Research Applications. 3. Physical Models in Decision Making for Design: Theoretical and Methodological Issues / Rachel Kaplan. 4.… Continue reading Environmental simulation : research and policy issues

Retirement communities

“Need to know how housing is financed? What is Situ construction? Need to define home matching? This encyclopedia provides access to a wealth of information drawn from many disciplines. With more than 500 entries, from abandonment to zoning, these capsules go beyond merely providing definitions of housing topics: they describe, elaborate, and critically assess issues… Continue reading Retirement communities

Survey measurement and process quality

Missing Data

Causal inference in the social and behavioral sciences / Michael E. Sobel — Missing data / Roderick J. A. Little and Nathaniel Schenker — Specification and estimation of mean structures : regression models / Gerhard Arminger — Specification and estimation of mean- and covariance-structure models / Michael W. Browne and Gerhard Arminger — The analysis… Continue reading Missing Data