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      Discourse on Social Planning under Uncertainty

      Charles F. Manski

      Integrates research in three fields -welfare economics, decision theory, and econometrics- to address uncertainty in the formation of public policy. Although all three fields are central to planning under uncertainty…

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      Discourse on Social Planning under Uncertainty

      Charles F. Manski

      Integrates research in three fields -welfare economics, decision theory, and econometrics- to address uncertainty in the formation of public policy. Although all three fields are central to planning under uncertainty…

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      Partial Identification of Probability Distributions

      Charles F. Manski

      The book presents in a rigorous and thorough manner the main elements of Charles Manski’s research on partial identification of probability distributions. The approach to inference that runs throughout the…

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      Partial Identification of Probability Distributions

      Charles F. Manski

      Studies of identification aim to characterize the conclusions that one could draw about a population of interest if one were able to observe a sample of unlimited size generated by…

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      Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response

      Charles F. Manski

      How should planners use the available evidence to choose treatments? This book addresses key aspects of this question, exploring and partially resolving pervasive problems of identification and statistical inference that…

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      Patient Care under Uncertainty

      Charles F. Manski

      For the past few years, the author, a renowned economist, has been applying the statistical tools of economics to decision making under uncertainty in the context of patient health status…

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      Identification for Prediction and Decision

      Charles F. Manski

      Juxtaposing methodology with empirical and numerical illustrations, this book is a full-scale exposition of a new approach for analyzing empirical questions in the social sciences. Manski recommends that researchers first…

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      Public Policy in an Uncertain World: Analysis and Decisions

      Charles F. Manski

      Manski argues that public policy is based on untrustworthy analysis. Failing to account for uncertainty in an uncertain world, policy analysis routinely misleads policy makers with expressions of certitude. Manski…

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      Identification Problems in the Social Sciences

      Charles F. Manski

      This book provides a language and tools for finding bounds on predictions social and behavioral scientists can logically make from nonexperimental and experimental data. Manski draws on criminology, demography, epidemiology…

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      College Choice in America

      Charles F Manski,David a Wise

      Using the data from the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972, the authors present a set of interrelated analyses of student and institutional behavior, each focused on a…

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      Elicitation of Preferences

      Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences.

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      Elicitation of Preferences

      Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences.

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      Economics to Econometrics: In Honor of Daniel L. Mcfadden

      Charles F. Manski,Whitney Newey

      The original research papers collected in this volume continue the development of discrete choice analysis, of related structural models for analysis of choice behavior, and of the statistical theory used…

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      Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change: Summary of a Workshop

      National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

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      Causal Inferences in Capital Markets Research

      Ivan Marinovic,Nancy Cartwright,John Rust,Peter C. Reiss,Charles F. Manski

      Attempts to promote a broad debate about the notion of causality and the role of causal inference in the social sciences. This volume allows researchers and students in accounting, and…

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      Assessment of Two Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Cocaine Control Policy

      Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      This study is an important first step in the development of a national policy on illegal drugs. It assesses two recent cost-effectiveness studies on cocaine control policy: one by RAND…

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      Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform: Summary of a Workshop

      Committee on National Statistics,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      This report was prepared in response to a request from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It summarizes the discussions at a February 1998…

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      Informing America’s Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don’t Know Keeps Hurting Us

      Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs,Committee on Law and Justice and Committee on National Statistics

      Recommends ways to close gaps in our understanding - by obtaining the necessary data on drug prices and consumption (quantity in addition to frequency); upgrading federal management of drug statistics…

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