Analyzing social experiments as implemented. A reexamination of the evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program.

Autor/inn/en	Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter A.; Yavitz, Adam
Titel	Analyzing social experiments as implemented. A reexamination of the evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program.
Quelle	Dublin: UCD Centre for Economic Research (2010), 57 S., 874,98 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (4) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Working paper series / UCD Centre for Economic Research. 2010/34
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen; Literaturangaben S. 53-57
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Forschungsmethode; Gesellschaft; Test; Sozialer Indikator; Sozialpolitik; Wissenschaft; Arbeitspapier; Informationsbeschaffung; USA
Abstract	Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Signi cant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for preliminary screening from a large candidate pool of possible effects. This paper develops tools for analyzing data from experiments as they are actually implemented. We apply these tools to analyze the influential HighScope Perry Preschool Program. The Perry program was a social experiment that provided preschool education and home visits to disadvantaged children during their preschool years. It was evaluated by the method of random assignment. Both treatments and controls have been followed from age 3 through age 40. Previous analyses of the Perry data assume that the planned randomization protocol was implemented. In fact, as in many social experiments, the intended randomization protocol was compromised. Accounting for compromised randomization, multiple-hypothesis testing, and small sample sizes, we find statistically significant and economically important program effects for both males and females. We also examine the representativeness of the Perry study.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/1