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Knitting empirical results in development economics together

Development Economics, to my knowledge, has become a mostly empirical field, with RCTs and other quasi-experimental techniques yielding a huge body of empirical knowledge about specific policies and ...
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RCT power for optimal design

I have a question regarding Optimal Design software. Particularly, let's suppose I have an intervention that assigns police patrols to different street segments, and that these segments are randomized ...
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Interesting example of general equilibrium effects contradicting RCT results

One of the concerns that one can have regarding the use of RCTs for evaluating policies is that while when done in small scales, the RCTs may show the result in one direction, scaling the policies may ...
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Adjusting categorical household income variable for interaction effects

For a research project (RCT) I am working on, I'm trying to identifying how different demographic groups differed in their performance on certain indices over time (like finance, health etc - measured ...
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Minimum Sample Size For Clustered Data Randomized Experiment

I need help determining the minimum sample size for a randomized controlled experiment. The treatment (1 Factor, 3 Levels) will be administered to different households clustered within 5 routes. ...
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How to interprete independence between treatment indicator and outcomes?

In Woodridge's textbook "Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data", page 907, it says ...the treatment indicator $w$ is statistically independent of ($y_0$, $y_1$), as would occur when ...
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Question about an ergodicity in economics paper

Disclaimer: I'm not well read in economics but am mathematically literate (PhD in Mech Eng) Recently I was sent a paper from Nature Physics, "The ergodicity problem in economics" by Ole ...
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Understanding this particular criticism of RCTs by Deaton and Cartwright

Deaton and Cartwright make several criticisms of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). My question is about this one in particular from a 2016 VoxEU piece: Well-conducted RCTs could provide unbiased ...
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Can I treat pooled cross-section as panel data and do regression analysis?

I work with a large survey data that is pooled cross-section, i.e, people interviewed are randomly chosen in each time period. This is not panel data. But, I aggregate the individual cells according ...
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Can I draw a smaller sample from one treatment group?

in an RCT, I have 3 different treatment groups and one control group. The size of the control group is around 1000 while the size of other groups are just above 300. To test balance I used ANOVA and ...
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Randomisation and balance in experiments

Suppose we are interested in the effect of some 'treatment' on some outcome of interest. A common practice is to select a group of people and then randomly choose some fraction (often half) to receive ...
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Calculate power for multiple rounds of public goods experiment

I would like to calculate/simulate the a-priori necessary sample size for a repeated public goods experiment. $N$ Participants play $R$ rounds of a public goods game (linear, voluntary contribution ...
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Software for field work: collecting survey data (multi-platform, on-line and off-line)

As part of an RCT, I am looking for Software to record digitally the answers some survey questionnaires. The questionnaire is somewhat long, ~100 questions divided into 10 blocks. We will collect 3 ...
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Problems with Representative Sampling

I am curious: what exactly are the problems caused by using representative sampling rather than random sampling whenever creating a subsample of large dataset for nonexperimental analysis. Further, ...
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How encouragement design works practically?

I'm trying to understand the encouragement design but I have some doubts. For example, if I want to introduce a voucher for teachers that can be used for professional development(the treatment) and I ...
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Self-selection bias during the course of experiments

Suppose you are running a randomized experiment to assess the effect of $X$, say some training program for unemployed people, on $Y$, say the chance of finding a job in the coming year. Suppose also ...
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