This lesson assumes you have completed the Causal Inference, Sampling for Surveys, and Power Calculations lessons.
Lesson slides
EG DIB baseline dataset
Stata code for examples in videos
Altman (1985) "Comparability of Randomised Groups" Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.
Athey and Imbens (2016) "The Econometrics of Randomized Experiments" Working paper.
Bruhn and McKenzie (2009) "In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments" American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Duflo, Glennerster, and Kremer (2007) "Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit" CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6059.
McManus (2020) "Why you don't always need a baseline" and "When to collect baseline data" IDinsight blog.
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