5 Top science books like Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation by Alan Gerber

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Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation

By: Alan Gerber

4.29

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

A brief, authoritative introduction to field experimentation in the social sciences. Written by two…

If you liked the science plot in Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation by Alan Gerber , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)

By: J.K. Rowling , Robert Galbraith

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym … read more

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2. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion

By: Joshua D. Angrist , Jörn-Steffen Pischke

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, inst… read more

Similar categories in Joshua D. Angrist's Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion book and Alan Gerber's Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation

  • economics
  • science
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3. The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)

By: J.K. Rowling , Robert Galbraith

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the … read more

Similar categories in J.K. Rowling's The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) book and Alan Gerber's Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation

"Nutters love murder."

-J.K. Rowling, The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)

"Hesitation was fatal. Choose."

-J.K. Rowling, The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)

"Lightning doesn't strike twice."

-J.K. Rowling, The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)

"All love, ultimately, is self-love."

-J.K. Rowling, The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)

4. John Adams

By: David McCullough

3.71

Format: 435 pages,

The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more

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5. Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect

By: Joshua D. Angrist , Jörn-Steffen Pischke

4.21

Format: None pages,

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6. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

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7. Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.22

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more

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"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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8. The Memory Police

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.72

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more

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"No one can erase the stories!"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"Few people here have any need of novels"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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9. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • economics
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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10. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell

3.85

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more

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"Without language, there are no "cults"."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"Some say people who join cults are “lost."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"With words, we breathe reality into being."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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11. Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

By: Carl L. Hart

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both power… read more

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  • science
"The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It'…"

-Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

12. Causal Inference: The Mixtape

By: Scott Cunningham

4.37

Format: None pages, ebook

An accessible, contemporary introduction to the methods for determining cause and effect in the soc… read more

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  • economics
  • science
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13. Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age

By: Matthew J. Salganik

4.08

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age In just the past se… read more

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  • science
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14. Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation

By: Alan Gerber

4.29

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

A brief, authoritative introduction to field experimentation in the social sciences. Written by two… read more

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  • economics
  • research
  • science

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