Randomization and matching
Read before class on Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Required
- Chapter 4 in Impact Evaluation in Practice1
- Chapter 1 in Mastering ’Metrics2
- Planet Money, “Moving To Opportunity?,” episode 937
- Aaron Carroll, “Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise,” The Upshot, August 6, 2018
Paul J. Gertler et al., Impact Evaluation in Practice, 2nd ed. (Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank, 2016), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.↩︎
Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Mastering ’Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015).↩︎