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The Importance of Common Metrics for Advancing Social Science Theory and Research: A Workshop Summary
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3:35 High school completion rates

John Robert Warren, University of Minnesota

4:05 Measuring race (and ethnicity)

C. Matthew Snipp, Stanford University

4:35 Discussion

Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University

5:00 Open discussion

5:40 Reception (first floor foyer)

6:45 Dinner (participants and invited guests)

Friday, February 26

8:30 a.m. Working breakfast

Participants arriving early are encouraged to discuss work-
shop issues over breakfast served in the meeting room.

Social-science constructs

Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University

9:00 The theory of measurement

Nancy D. Cartwright, University of California, San Diego,
and London School of Economics and Political Science
and
Norman M. Bradburn, National Opinion Research Center,
University of Chicago

Examples

9:30 Measuring poverty: The question of standardization

Robert T. Michael, University of Chicago

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