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Experimental Impact Evaluation Design

4 October 2022

Lesson Prerequisities

This lesson assumes you have completed the Causal Inference, Sampling for Surveys, and Power Calculations lessons.

Lesson Materials

Lesson slides

EG DIB baseline dataset

Stata code for examples in videos

Additional Resources

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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