American Behavioral Scientist (ABS)
Special Issue on Field Experiments
in the Political Sciences

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Contributing Authors:

Introduction
Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber
Yale University

Peter Salovey, Pamela Williams Piehota
Field Experiments in Social Psychology: Message Framing and the Promotion of Health Barriers
http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Salovey.html

Robert A. Moffitt
Johns Hopkins University
The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research: A Perspective From Evaluations of Reforms of Social Welfare Programs
http://www.econ.jhu.edu/people/moffitt/

Alan S. Gerber
Yale University
Does Campaign Spending Work? Field Experiments Provide Evidence and Suggest New Theory
http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/agerber.html

Lawrence W. Sherman & Heather Strang
Verdicts or Inventions? Interpreting Results from Randomized Controlled Experiments in Criminology
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/fels/faculty/sherman.htm

Robert F. Boruch, Henry May, Herbert Turner, Julia Lavenberg, Anthony Petrosino
Dorothy de Moya, Jermey Grimshaw, & Ellen Foley
University of Pennsylvania
Estimating the Effects of Interventions that are Deployed in Many Places: Place Randomized Trials
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/fels/faculty/boruch.htm

William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson
Harvard University
Uses of Theory in Randomized Field Trials: Lessons From School Voucher Research on Disaggregation, Missing Data, and the Generalization of Findings
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/Faculty/Bios/Howell.htm
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/Faculty/Bios/Peterson.htm

Alan B. Krueger, Pei Zhu
Princeton University
Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/faculty/krueger.html
The paper is at: http://www.ers.princeton.edu/workingpapers/1_ers.pdf

Paul E. Peterson, William G. Howell
Efficiency, Bias, and Classification Schemes: Estimating Private-School Impact on Test Scores in the New York City Voucher Experiment (Rejoinder)

Alan B. Krueger, Pei Zhu
Inefficiency, Subsample Selection Bias, and Nonrobustness: A Response to Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell
http://www.ers.princeton.edu/workingpapers/4ers.pdf

Standards for Maintaining, Collecting and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (PDF format)

Myers' Table - Race and Ethnicity Definitions

Myers' Unpublished Table (PDF format)

Replication of Howell and Peterson's Table 4, Alan B. Krueger and Pei Zhu (PDF format)

Additional Papers and Comments by Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell can be found at: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/papers.htm http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/pdf/PEPG_03-14.pdf