Author: Manski, Charles F.
Title: Identification Problems in the Social Sciences.
Description: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Hardcover. 194 pp. English text. Condition : very good. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - 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. The economist 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. There are many traditional ways to present identification problems in econometrics, sociology, and psychometrics. Some of these are primarily statistical in nature, using concepts such as flat likelihood functions and nondistinct parameter estimates. Manski's strategy is to divorce identification from purely statistical concepts and to present the logic of identification analysis in ways that are accessible to a wide audience in the social and behavioral sciences. In each case, problems are motivated by real examples with real policy importance, the mathematics is kept to a minimum, and the deductions on identifiability are derived giving fresh insights. ISBN 9780674442832.

Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCES,