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At budget time in the US Federal Government’s Office of Management and Budget in the Executive branch, and in the Congressional Budget Office in the legislative branch, the question is probably asked: is the investment in applied social research (concerned with major social problems) worth it? Should we spend more, the same, or less? What should we cut, what should we augment?
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Abt, C.C. (1978). Toward the Benefit/Cost Evaluation of US Government Applied Social Research and Social Programmes,and the Marginal Productivity of their Components, 1965–75. In: Stone, R., Peterson, W. (eds) Econometric Contributions to Public Policy. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16003-7_18
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