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The Importance of Common Metrics for Advancing Social Science Theory and Research: A Workshop Summary
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10:15 Discussion

Christine A. Bachrach

10:40 Break

Examples

11:05 What can we learn from the economic sciences?

Robert J. Willis, University of Michigan

11:35 Measuring health-related quality of life

Dennis Fryback, University of Wisconsin, Madison

12:05 p.m. Discussion

Jack E. Triplett, Brookings Institution
Kathleen A. Cagney, University of Chicago

12:30 Lunch

Lunch is available in the Academies’ atrium cafeteria on the
third floor.

1:30 Open discussion

Indicators

Chair: Barbara Schneider, Michigan State University

2:10 Advantages and disadvantages of the standardization of indi-
cators used in policy

Geoff Mulgan, The Young Foundation

Examples

2:40 Standardized measurement

Robert A. Pollak, Washington University, St. Louis,
Missouri

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