- Identification Problems in the Social Sciences
- Charles F. Manski
- This book provides a language and a set of tools for finding bounds on the predictions that social and behavioral scientists can logically make from nonexperimental and experimental data. Charles Manski draws on examples from criminology, demography, epidemiology, social psychology, and sociology as well as economics to illustrate this language and to demonstrate the broad usefulness of the tools.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover
- Identification for Prediction and Decision
- Charles F. Manski
- This book is a full-scale exposition of Manski's new methodology for analyzing empirical questions in the social sciences. He recommends that researchers ask first what can be learned from data alone, and then what can be learned when data are combined with credible weak assumptions. Each chapter juxtaposes developments of methodology with empirical or numerical illustrations.
- Hardcover 2008
- Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys
- Howard Schuman
- Schuman examines the question-answer process that is basic to polls and surveys. This book is less about the substance of wording effects and more about approaches to interpreting the respondent’s world, and how surveys can make that world understandable—though often in ways not anticipated by the researcher.
- Hardcover 2008
- Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences
- Kristin Luker
- Hardcover 2008