Reforms as Experiments

By D. Campbell. 1969

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Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization (2022, background): “Goodhart’s Law in its modern formulation was first introduced in Hoskin (1996), with many of the key ideas introduced in prior works (Campbell, 1969; Goodhart, 1975).”
A Survey of Learning Causality with Data: Problems and Methods (2018, methodology): “For example, Gelman and Imbens [46] pointed out that high-order polynomials can be misleading in RDD.”
Regression-Discontinuity Analysis: A Survey of Recent Developments in Economics (2008, background): “Although an ability to manipulate the value of the assignment variable will therefore not necessarily invalidate the RD approach, clearly one would expect it to affect the composition of the sample around the discontinuity point: the program may cause different subgroups to locate near the cut-off t”
Comprehensive School Reform and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis (2003, background): “Cook and Campbell (1979) note that threats to internal validity, including Comprehensive School Reform and Achievement”
Coupled Human and Natural Systems (2007, background): “The greatest likelihood of success will entail developing strategies of policy analysis and implementation that approach decisions with humility and emphasize the need to learn through time (15, 130).”
Trying to do more Good than Harm in Policy and Practice: The Role of Rigorous, Transparent, Up-to-Date Evaluations (2003, methodology): “For reasons that should now be clear, although I felt it was essential that such collaboration should be international, I believed that it would fail without the leadership and active involvement of social scientists in the United States, and I suggested that it might be named after one of them—Dona”
The effects of sexual offender treatment on recidivism: an international meta-analysis of sound quality evaluations (2015, methodology): “But when an adequately designed RTC is n ot feasible, one should also apply sound quasi-experimental designs that have been recommend ed since Campbell’s (1969) groundbreaking article in the field of program eval uation (e.”
Instrumental variables methods in experimental criminological research: what, why and how (2006, unknown): “This study can be seen as an application of 656 Campbell’s (1969) celebrated regression-discontinuity design for quasi-experi657 mental research, but also as a type of IV.”
The (mis)estimation of neighborhood effects: causal inference for a practicable social epidemiology. (2004, unknown): “46 In light of the public’s acceptance for placebo-controlled clinical experiments, where lives are crashingly at stake, it is astonishing that the public does not embrace a experimental method for social reform (Campbell, 1973; Freeman & Rossi, 1981; Rossi et al., 1999).”
"Waiting for Life to Arrive": A history of the regression-discontinuity design in Psychology, Statistics and Economics (2008, methodology): “Campbell wrote the section in Riecken et al (1974) that first presented the Lohr design, though the text there is not explicitly couched in RDD terms.”
How to — and How Not to — Evaluate Innovation (2002, result): “This, for example, is consistent with his view of an ‘experimenting society’ (Campbell, 1969, 1971, 1988b).”