Predicting what will happen when you interveneFebruary 2017Nancy Cartwright (Durham University), Jeremy Hardie (LSE) Clin Soc Work J. 2017; 45(3): 270–279
The limitations of randomised control trialsNovember 2016Prof Sir Angus Deaton, Princeton University and Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD VOX CEPR's Policy Portal, 9 Nov. 2016
K4U working papers are published as a sub-series of the CHESS working papers. To access the full series, please visit the CHESS site.
Not for profit, but for use: is philosophy good for practice?December 2020Eleonora Montuschi, Ca' Foscari UniversityCHESS Working Paper No. 2020-05 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Causality and its implications for Theories of Change and evaluations of complex systemsDecember 2020Eileen Munro, London School of Economics and Political ScienceCHESS Working Paper No. 2020-04 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Using Middle-Level Theory to Improve Programme and Evaluation DesignSeptember 2020Nancy Cartwright, Durham UniversityCHESS Working Paper No. 2020-03 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Making predictions of programme success more reliableSeptember 2020Nancy Cartwright (Durham University), Lucy Charlton, Matt Juden (University of London), Tamlyn Munslow (Durham University) and Richard Beadon Williams (Durham University)CHESS Working Paper No. 2020-02 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Causal processes – a social policy exampleAugust 2020Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD and John Pemberton, London School of EconomicsCHESS Working Paper No. 2020-01 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Theory and Evidence in EconomicsJuly 2019Julian Reiss, Durham UniversityCHESS Working Paper No. 2019-06 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
What Are the Drivers of Induction? Towards a Material Theory+July 2019Julian Reiss, Durham UniversityCHESS Working Paper No. 2019-05 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
For whom does ‘what works’ work? The political economy of evidence-based educationApril 2019Nick Cowen, New York University School of LawCHESS Working Paper No. 2019-04 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Predictive analytics in child protectionApril 2019Eileen Munro, Durham University and LSECHESS Working Paper No. 2019-03 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Street-level Theories of Change: Adapting the Medical Model of Evidence-based Practice for PolicingFebruary 2019Nick Cowen, New York University School of Law and Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSDCHESS Working Paper No. 2019-02 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Objectivity in Science and Law: A Shared Rescue StrategyFebruary 2019Matt Burch, University of Essex and Katherine Furman, University College CorkCHESS Working Paper No. 2019-01 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Mechanisms, ceteris paribus laws and covering-law explanationOctober 2018Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD, John Pemberton, London School of Economics and Sarah Wieten, Stanford University Center for Biomedical EthicsCHESS Working Paper No. 2018-04 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Trade-offs between Epistemic and Moral Values in Evidence-Based PolicyMarch 2018Donal Khosrowi, Durham UniversityCHESS Working Paper No. 2018-03 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Constructed Objectivity and Realist Presuppositions: a Kantian FrameworkMarch 2018Eleonora Montuschi, University Ca’ Foscari of VeniceCHESS Working Paper No. 2018-01 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
How to Learn about Causes in the Single CaseDecember 2017Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham UniversityCHESS Working Paper No. 2017-04 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Fact-Value Entanglement in Positive EconomicsApril 2017Prof Julian Reiss, Durham UniversityCHESS Working Paper No. 2017-02 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Improving Child Safety: deliberation, judgement and empirical researchFebruary 2017Munro, E., Cartwright, N., Hardie, J. and Montuschi, E. [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
What’s so special about empirical adequacy?September 2016Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam, California State University and Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSDCHESS Working Paper No. 2016-08 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
A Theory of MeasurementSeptember 2016Prof Norman M. Bradburn, NORC and University of Chicago, Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD and Jonathan Fuller, University of TorontoCHESS Working Paper No. 2016-07 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Are laws of nature consistent with contingency?September 2016Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD and Pedro Merlussi, Durham UniversityCHESS Working Paper No. 2016-06 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trialsApril 2016Prof Sir Angus Deaton, Princeton University and Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSDCHESS Working Paper No. 2016-05 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project]
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