2006-rossi-obituary.html
1978-rossi.pdf
The Replication Crisis: Flaws in Mainstream Science
1987-rossi.pdf
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, A Research Annual: Volume 4
The Iron Law of Bureaucracy
Democrats And The Iron Law Of Institutions
Iron Lawlapalooza
https://faculty.uml.edu/ktusinski/44.390/Documents/Sherman.pdf
One Man’s Modus Ponens
Iodine and Adult IQ meta-analysis
1977-cutright-impactfamilyplanningprogramsfertility.pdf
1981-guba-effectiveevaluation.pdf
1971-kassebaum-prisontreatmentandparolesurvival.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Effectiveness-Correctional-Treatment-Evaluation-political/dp/0275055809/
1980-patton-qualitativeevaluationmethods.pdf
https://www.policinginstitute.org/content/randomized-experiments
1985-pate-executivesummary.pdf
1985-pate-technicalreport.pdf
1985-pate-appendices.pdf
1985-skogan-executivesummary.pdf
1985-skogan-technicalreport.pdf
1985-skogan-appendices.pdf
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED205614.pdf
1980-rossi-moneyworkandcrime.pdf
The Benefits of Psychotherapy
1981-struyk-housingvouchersforthepoor.pdf
Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Surveys
Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey Report No-8 March 1979 : Prepared For Office Of Program Evaluation Employment And Training Administration
Everything Is Correlated
Rossi’s Metallic Rules: Why Do Evaluations Tend to Find That Social Programs Don't Work?
https://www.dcscience.net/Davey-Smith-2011.pdf
Does Pre-K Work? It Depends How Picky You Are
How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?
1966-bereiter-teachingdisadvantagedchildreninpreschool.pdf
Does Attendance in Private Schools Predict Student Outcomes at Age 15? Evidence From a Longitudinal Study
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/633738/pdf
No, US School Funding Is Actually Somewhat Progressive
Racial Isolation in the Public Schools; a Report
1925-gates.pdf
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED011274.pdf
1967-hodges.pdf
1967-goslin-teachersandtesting.pdf
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED017319.pdf
Educational Stimulation of Racially Disadvantaged Children
1967-powledge-tochangeachild.pdf
The Effect of a Change to a Relatively Superior Environment upon the IQs of One Hundred Children
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED055128.pdf
1977-stickney.pdf
Racial Isolation in the Public Schools; a Report—Volume 1 § Pg125
Biology and Behavior: Genetics
SYMPOSIUM ON THE EFFECTS OF COACHING AND PRACTICE IN INTELLIGENCE TESTS: V.—Conclusions
When Congressionally-Authorized Federal Programs Are Evaluated in Randomized Controlled Trials, Most Fall Short. Reform Is Needed.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-sociologists-made-themselves-irrelevant/
The Problem With International Development—And a Plan to Fix It
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-298.pdf
https://www.propublica.org/article/americas-richest-school-serves-low-income-kids-but-much-of-its-hershey-funded-fortune-isnt-being-spent
Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Final Report: The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2015–2016
Study: Multi-Year Gates Experiment to Improve Teacher Effectiveness Spent $575 Million, Didn’t Make an Impact
Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/rpande/files/moving_isolation_aer_submission.pdf
1978-firkowska.pdf
Living alongside more affluent neighbors predicts greater involvement in antisocial behavior among low-income boys
Shocking Behavior: Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations
Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-Run Distribution of Wealth
2016-clark.pdf
Land Lotteries, Long-Term Wealth, and Political Selection
Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players
What Money Can‘t Buy: Family Income and Children’s Life Chances
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War
The Impact of Class Labels on Life Chances in China
MIT_REST_110030 961..969
Long-Run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-Being
Association Between Lottery Prize Size and Self-reported Health Habits in Swedish Lottery Players
When a Town Wins the Lottery: Evidence from Spain
Bankruptcy Rates among NFL Players with Short-Lived Income Spikes
Disappointing Findings on Conditional Cash Transfers As a Tool to Break the Poverty Cycle in the United States
The Adequacy of Comparison Group Designs for Evaluations of Employment-Related Programs
https://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage/dp/0520241134
Randomized Controlled Trials Commissioned by the Institute of Education Sciences Since 2002: How Many Found Positive Versus Weak or No Effects?
The Efficacy of Psychological, Educational, and Behavioral Treatment: Confirmation from Meta-Analysis
https://jenni.uchicago.edu/Spencer_Conference/Representative%20Papers/Richard%20et%20al,%202003.pdf
Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs Are Often Uninformative: Should We Be Concerned?
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/handbook_fryer_03.25.2016.pdf
The impact of neighbourhood deprivation on adolescent violent criminality and substance misuse: A longitudinal, quasi-experimental study of the total Swedish population
BJP-2013–136200 1..5
Does Population Density and Neighborhood Deprivation Predict Schizophrenia? A Nationwide Swedish Family-Based Study of 2.4 Million Individuals
https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/43/5/1011/3859745
No causal associations between childhood family income and subsequent psychiatric disorders, substance misuse and violent crime arrests: a nationwide Finnish study of >650 000 individuals and their siblings
https://wp.nyu.edu/dri/wp-content/uploads/sites/2459/2015/08/Allcott_SiteSelectionBias-14.pdf
Investing in Schools: Capital Spending, Facility Conditions, and Student Achievement
Non-Cognitive Deficits and Young Adult Outcomes: The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/68589/10.1177_0049124185013003002.pdf
Effects of the Tennessee Prekindergarten Program on children’s achievement and behavior through third grade
Expectations of Sustained Effects from Scaled up Pre-K: Challenges from the Tennessee Study
Large Randomized Trial Finds State Pre-K Program Has Adverse Effects on Academic Achievement. Reform Is Needed to Increase Effectiveness
Effects of a statewide pre-kindergarten program on children’s achievement and behavior through sixth grade
Does State Pre-K Improve Children’s Achievement?
The Employment Retention and Advancement Project: How Effective Are Different Approaches Aiming to Increase Employment Retention and Advancement? Final Impacts for 12 Models
The Long-Run Consequences of Living in a Poor Neighborhood
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/180/8/776/2739293
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.720.3838&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Using Internal Migration to Estimate the Causal Effect of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context on Health: A Longitudinal Analysis, England, 1995–2008
The geography of family differences and intergenerational mobility
Public Housing, Housing Vouchers, and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago
11292_2015_9244_Article 1..31
Troubled Families Report ‘Suppressed’
https://docs.iza.org/dp9279.pdf
Born on the Wrong Day? School Entry Age and Juvenile Crime
Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, Or Healthier Lifestyles?
2014-02-25-matter-themanwhodestroyedamericasego.html
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/quasi-religious-great-self-esteem-con
Beware the Stunning Pilot Program
The High Cost of Not Doing Experiments
'Scared Straight' and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency
When Helping Hurts
1978-mccord.pdf
2009-mccord-crimeandfamily-ch1-a30yearfollowuptreatmenteffects.pdf
2009-mccord-crimeandfamily-ch2-considerationeffectscounselingprogram.pdf
2009-mccord-crimeandfamily-ch3-cambridgesomervillestudy.pdf
2009-mccord-crimeandfamily-ch4-curesthatharm.pdf
2016-zane.pdf
1997-elvik.pdf
Why Certain Systematic Reviews Reach Uncertain Conclusions
What Works?—Questions and Answers about Prison Reform
Miller, March 1989, The Washington Post
1979-sechrest.pdf
1995-lipton.pdf
2002-pearson.pdf
Large Randomized Trial Finds Disappointing Effects for Federally-Funded Programs to Facilitate the Re-Entry of Prisoners into the Community. A New Approach Is Needed
Effectiveness of psychological interventions in prison to reduce recidivism: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
1992-lipsey.pdf
1994-cook-metanalysisexplanationcasebook.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-017-9297-z
http://www.fsb.muohio.edu/fsb/ecopapers/docs/packhaam-2017-01-paper.pdf
https://irs.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf276/files/event/uploads/economics_of_scaleup_20171004.pdf
Recession or No Recession, Many NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball Players Have a Penchant for Losing Most or All of Their Money. It Doesn't Matter How Much They Make. And the Ways They Blow It Are Strikingly Similar
What Really Happened At The School Where Every Graduate Got Into College
https://economics.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/economics_of_scaleup_20180316.pdf
Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions
Beware the Pitfalls of Short-Term Program Effects: They Often Fade
The Shirky Principle
Boosting School Readiness: Should Preschool Teachers Target Skills or the Whole Child?
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/960091473863696457/Shoeing-the-Children-the-impact-of-the-TOMS-Shoe-donation-program-in-rural-El-Salvador
Five-Hundred Life-Saving Interventions and Their Cost-Effectiveness
Association of Rideshare-Based Transportation Services and Missed Primary Care Appointments: A Clinical Trial
Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning
Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning [Blog]
2018-jones.pdf
What You Should Know About Megaprojects and Why: An Overview
The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e07a/0ae2d8e053cef39d3a5326b18b2207e3ac35.pdf#page=4
Preschool: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare [Age] 0–2 for Children in Advantaged Families
How We All Failed In Performance Contracting
Educational Performance Contracting: An Evaluation of an Experiment
https://fieldexperiments-papers2.s3.amazonaws.com/papers/00648.pdf
Can Restorative Practices Improve School Climate and Curb Suspensions? An Evaluation of the Impact of Restorative Practices in a Mid-Sized Urban School District
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Heckman-curve-May-2018.pdf
Alcoholics Anonymous: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud.
Adverse Findings Misstated As Positive in Study of Family Connects Home Visiting Program
Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory
How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science
A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement
What we can learn from five naturalistic field experiments that failed to shift commuter behavior
Beliefs About Human Intelligence in a Sample of Teachers and Nonteachers
Fast food outlets, physical activity facilities, and obesity among adults: a nationwide longitudinal study from Sweden
Health Recommendations and Selection in Health Behaviors
Technology and educational choices: Evidence from a one-laptop-per-child program (OLPC)
Essays in Applied Microeconomics [OLPC, natural-disasters/growth, Silent Spring]
New Evidence On The Heckman Curve
What is the causal effect of income gains on youth obesity? Leveraging the economic boom created by the Marcellus Shale development
Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India
RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Importance of Endogenous Peer Group Formation
Long-term Health and Social Outcomes in Children and Adolescents Placed in Out-of-Home Care
Nothing Scales
Do Labor Market Policies have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
Texting Students and Study Supporters (Project SUCCESS): Evaluation Report
Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment
Can behavioral interventions be too salient? Evidence from traffic safety messages
Efficacy of infant simulator programmes to prevent teenage pregnancy: a school-based cluster randomized controlled trial in Western Australia
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences
It pays to be ignorant: A simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation
https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/why-men-are-hard-to-help
The consequences of job search monitoring for the long-term unemployed: Disability instead of employment?
https://edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai23-836.pdf
https://x.com/zachweingarten/status/1709321427118149821
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2809968
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31746
Does alleviating poverty increase cognitive performance? Short-term & long-term evidence from a randomized controlled trial
D.C. Sent $10,800 to Dozens of New Moms. Here’s How It Changed Their Lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/education/lebron-james-school-ohio.html
https://www.the74million.org/article/lebrons-school-has-everything-were-told-students-need-theyre-still-failing/
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/03/24/hey-heres-a-study-where-all-the-preregistered-analyses-yielded-null-results-but-it-was-presented-in-pnas-as-being-wholly-positive/
Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage
https://www.spin.com/2015/07/live-aid-the-terrible-truth-ethiopia-bob-geldof-feature/
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy
The inefficacy of land titling programs: homesteading in Haiti, 1933–1950
U.S. Aid Program Vowed to Help 75,000 Afghan Women. Watchdog Says It’s a Flop
The Effects Of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence From Two Randomized Experiments