← All authors Thomas D. Cook Rollins College (per OpenAlex) · ORCID · OpenAlex
42 papers in scope · 41 published · 2 on the econ.EM arXiv · 2,828 citations · h-index 19 (over the papers listed here)
Papers (1 of 42)
Combining a Local Comparison Group, a Pretest Measure, and Rich Covariates: How Well Do They Collectively Reduce Bias in Nonequivalent Comparison Group Designs?
published 2022 · American Educational Research Journal · 6 citations
with Seth Brown, Mengli Song, Michael S. Garet
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VALIDITY OF THE COMPARATIVE INTERRUPTED TIME‐SERIES DESIGN: A META‐ANALYSIS
published 2022 · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 13 citations
working paper 2021 · arXiv · 3 citations
The Sequential Scale-Up of an Evidence-Based Intervention: A Case Study.
published 2018 · Evaluation Review · 12 citations
with Jaime Thomas, Alice Klein, Prentice Starkey, Lydia DeFlorio
Twenty-six assumptions that have to be met if single random assignment experiments are to warrant “gold standard” status: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright
published 2018 · Social Science & Medicine · 57 citations
THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VALIDITY OF THE REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGN: A META‐ANALYSIS OF 15 WITHIN‐STUDY COMPARISONS
published 2018 · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 81 citations
Statistical Power for the Comparative Regression Discontinuity Design With a Pretest No-Treatment Control Function: Theory and Evidence From the National Head Start Impact Study
published 2018 · Evaluation Review · 9 citations
with Yang Tang
Comparative Regression Discontinuity: A Stress Test With Small Samples
published 2018 · Evaluation Review · 8 citations
with Yasemin Kisbu-Sakarya, Yang Tang, M. H. Clark
Pretest Measures of the Study Outcome and the Elimination of Selection Bias: Evidence from Three Within Study Comparisons
published 2016 · Prevention Science · 38 citations
with Kelly Hallberg, Peter M. Steiner, M. H. Clark
Application of a Hybrid Regression Discontinuity Design to Examine the Generality of Program Effects
published 2016 · 2016 Fall Conference: The Role of Research in Making Government More Effective
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DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES METHODS IN PUBLIC FINANCE
published 2015 · National Tax Journal · 77 citations
with Travis St. Clair
Adding Design Elements to Improve Time Series Designs: No Child Left Behind as an Example of Causal Pattern-Matching
published 2015 · Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness · 37 citations
with Manyee Wong, Peter M. Steiner
The Inheritance bequeathed to William G. Cochran that he willed forward and left for others to will forward again: The Limits of Observational Studies that seek to Mimic Randomized Experiments
published 2015 · Observational Studies · 3 citations
Bias Reduction in Quasi-Experiments With Little Selection Theory but Many Covariates
published 2014 · Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness · 32 citations
with Peter M. Steiner, Wei Li, M. H. Clark
Causally Valid Relationships That Invoke the Wrong Causal Agent: Construct Validity of the Cause in Policy Research
published 2014 · Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research · 7 citations
with Yang Tang, Shari Seidman Diamond
Examining the Internal Validity and Statistical Precision of the Comparative Interrupted Time Series Design by Comparison With a Randomized Experiment
published 2014 · American Journal of Evaluation · 102 citations
with Travis St. Clair, Kelly Hallberg
Causal Inference and the Comparative Interrupted Time Series Design: Findings from Within-Study Comparisons.
published 2014 · Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness · 1 citations
with Travis St. Clair, Kelly Hallberg
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Empirically Examining the Performance of Approaches to Multi-Level Matching to Study the Effect of School-Level Interventions.
published 2013 · Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness · 2 citations
with Kelly Hallberg, David Figlio
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Intact School Matching in Education: Exploring the Relative Importance of Focal and Local Matching.
published 2013 · Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness · 2 citations
with Vivian C. Wong, Kelly Hallberg
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A randomized experiment comparing random and cutoff-based assignment.
published 2011 · Psychological Methods · 86 citations
with William R. Shadish, Rodolfo J. Galindo, Vivian C. Wong, Peter M. Steiner
The Role of Pretest and Proxy-Pretest Measures of the Outcome for Removing Selection Bias in Observational Studies.
published 2011 · Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness · 2 citations
with Kelly Hallberg, Peter M. Steiner
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The importance of covariate selection in controlling for selection bias in observational studies.
published 2010 · Psychological Methods · 500 citations
with Peter M. Steiner, William R. Shadish, M. H. Clark
Case matching and the reduction of selection bias in quasi-experiments: The relative importance of pretest measures of outcome, of unreliable measurement, and of mode of data analysis.
published 2010 · Psychological Methods · 115 citations
with Peter M. Steiner
How Bias Reduction Is Affected by Covariate Choice, Unreliability, and Mode of Data Analysis: Results From Two Types of Within-Study Comparisons
published 2009 · Multivariate Behavioral Research · 82 citations
with Peter M. Steiner, Steffi Pohl
Comparison Groups in Short Interrupted Time-Series: An Illustration evaluating No Child Left Behind
published 2009 · Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness · 4 citations
with Manyee Wong, Peter M. Steiner
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Three conditions under which experiments and observational studies produce comparable causal estimates: New findings from within‐study comparisons
published 2008 · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 615 citations
with William R. Shadish, Vivian C. Wong
The Renaissance of Field Experimentation in Evaluating Interventions
published 2008 · Annual Review of Psychology · 209 citations
with William R. Shadish
Empirical Tests of the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design: Implications for its Theory and its Use in Research Practice
published 2008 · Annals of Economics and Statistics · 4 citations
with Vivian C. Wong
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An effectiveness‐based evaluation of five state pre‐kindergarten programs
published 2007 · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 298 citations
with Vivian C. Wong, W. Steven Barnett, Kwanghee Jung
Building the Capacity to Experiment in Schools: A Case Study of the Institute of Educational Sciences in the US Department of Education
published 2007 · Economics of Innovation and New Technology · 9 citations
with Dominique Foray
Randomized Experiments in Education: Assessing the Objections to Doing Them
published 2007 · Economics of Innovation and New Technology · 20 citations
Explaining Aspects of the Transition to Adulthood in Italy, Sweden, Germany, and the United States: A Cross-Disciplinary, Case Synthesis Approach
published 2002 · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 106 citations
with Frank F. Furstenberg
The War On Fraud and Error in the Food Stamp Program
published 1993 · Evaluation Review · 9 citations
with Georg E. Matt
Three awards given by AEA
published 1987 · Evaluation Practice · 1 citations
Quasi‐experimentation in a critical multiplist mode
published 1986 · New Directions for Program Evaluation · 35 citations
with William R. Shadish, Arthur C. Houts
The causal assumptions of quasi-experimental practice
published 1986 · Synthese · 130 citations
with Donald T. Campbell
Evaluation Findings in Education and Social Work Textbooks
published 1983 · Evaluation Review · 8 citations
with Laura C. Leviton
The Implicit Assumptions of Television Research: An Analysis of the 1982 NIMH Report on Television and Behavior
published 1983 · Public Opinion Quarterly · 79 citations
with Deborah Kendzierski, Stephen V. Thomas
Time-Series Modelling in a Regional Economy: An Exposition of Box—Jenkins Techniques
published 1981 · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space · 6 citations
with Paul Falchi
Forecasting state retail sales: Econometric vs. time series models: A comment
published 1980 · The Annals of Regional Science · 2 citations
An application of the transfer function to an economic-base model
published 1979 · The Annals of Regional Science · 14 citations
Continuing evaluation and accountability controls for a national health insurance program
published 1978 · American Psychologist · 4 citations
with A R Pacht, Rudyard K. Bent, L B Klebanoff, D A Rodgers, Lee Sechrest, H Strupp, M Theaman
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