Modeling cross-site experimental differences to find out why program effectiveness varies

Learning More from Social Experiments: Evolving Analytic Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 37-74

  Bloom, Howard S ^a   Hill, Carolyn J ^b   Riccio, James A ^a  

^a MDRC ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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