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A Primer on the Analysis of Randomized Experiments and a Survey of some Recent Advances

Yuehao Bai, Azeem M. Shaikh, Max Tabord-Meehan

arXiv 6 May 2024 · Econometrics · 2 citations (OpenAlex)

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Abstract

The past two decades have witnessed a surge of new research in the analysis of randomized experiments. The emergence of this literature may seem surprising given the widespread use and long history of experiments as the "gold standard" in program evaluation, but this body of work has revealed many subtle aspects of randomized experiments that may have been previously unappreciated. This article provides an overview of some of these topics, primarily focused on stratification, regression adjustment, and cluster randomization.

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6Bugni, F., Canay, I., Shaikh, A. and Tabord-Meehan, M (2022) Inference for Cluster Randomized Experiments with Non-ignorable Cluster Sizes self0.69361100%
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