Role of Design for Causal Analysis to Achieve Equity in Research on Community Engagement

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Abstract

The credibility revolution in economics has generated strategies for research designs that have explored a variety of topics and strongly influenced policy decisions related to education and society (Angrist & Pischke, 2010). However, research on community engagement less frequently applies methods that yield causal conclusions about research whether focused on students, practitioners, or communities. Traditional causal designs rely heavily on experimental methods featuring randomization to assignment, which are rare in service-learning research (Steinberg et al., 2013). But experimental methods are not the only designs that yield causal interpretations. This review offers focuses on contributions to research that employ a variety of causal inference strategies in research on community engagement between 2005 and 2023.

Author

• Thomas A. Dahan, Rutgers University - Camden