The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences
Although the concept of randomized assignment to control for extraneous factors reaches back hundreds of years, the first empirical use appears to have been in an 1835 trial of homeopathic medicine. Throughout the 19th century, there was primarily...
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okr-10986-267542021-06-08T14:42:46Z The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences Jamison, Julian C. RANDOMIZATION RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL FIELD EXPERIMENT LAB EXPERIMENT SELECTION BIAS CAUSALITY ECONOMIC THOUGHT SOCIAL SCIENCES Although the concept of randomized assignment to control for extraneous factors reaches back hundreds of years, the first empirical use appears to have been in an 1835 trial of homeopathic medicine. Throughout the 19th century, there was primarily a growing awareness of the need for careful comparison groups, albeit often without the realization that randomization could be a particularly clean method to achieve that goal. In the second and more crucial phase of this history, four separate but related disciplines introduced randomized control trials within a few years of one another in the 1920s: agricultural science, clinical medicine, educational psychology, and social policy (specifically political science). Randomized control trials brought more rigor to fields that were in the process of expanding their purviews and focusing more on causal relationships. In the third phase, the 1950s through the 1970s saw a surge of interest in more applied randomized experiments in economics and elsewhere, in the lab and especially in the field. 2017-05-24T16:32:15Z 2017-05-24T16:32:15Z 2017-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/174451494942048090/The-entry-of-randomized-assignment-into-the-social-sciences http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26754 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8062 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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RANDOMIZATION RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL FIELD EXPERIMENT LAB EXPERIMENT SELECTION BIAS CAUSALITY ECONOMIC THOUGHT SOCIAL SCIENCES Jamison, Julian C. The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences |
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Although the concept of randomized
assignment to control for extraneous factors reaches back
hundreds of years, the first empirical use appears to have
been in an 1835 trial of homeopathic medicine. Throughout
the 19th century, there was primarily a growing awareness of
the need for careful comparison groups, albeit often without
the realization that randomization could be a particularly
clean method to achieve that goal. In the second and more
crucial phase of this history, four separate but related
disciplines introduced randomized control trials within a
few years of one another in the 1920s: agricultural science,
clinical medicine, educational psychology, and social policy
(specifically political science). Randomized control trials
brought more rigor to fields that were in the process of
expanding their purviews and focusing more on causal
relationships. In the third phase, the 1950s through the
1970s saw a surge of interest in more applied randomized
experiments in economics and elsewhere, in the lab and
especially in the field. |
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Jamison, Julian C. |
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Jamison, Julian C. |
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Jamison, Julian C. |
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The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences |
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The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences |
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The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences |
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The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences |
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The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences |
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entry of randomized assignment into the social sciences |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2017 |
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