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In Pursuit of Balance : Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments

Randomized experiments are increasingly used in development economics, with researchers now facing the question of not just whether to randomize, but how to do so. Pure random assignment guarantees that the treatment and control groups will have id...

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Main Authors:	Bruhn, Miriam, McKenzie, David
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ALTERNATIVE APPROACH BOOTSTRAP DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC MODELS ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS LITERATURE ESTIMATORS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EXTERNALITIES FIELD EXPERIMENTS INCOME LINEAR MODELS LINEAR REGRESSION LOTTERIES METHODOLOGY MINIMIZATION MISSING OBSERVATIONS NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS POLITICAL ECONOMY PRECISION PROBABILITY PROGRAMS RANDOMIZATION RESEARCH PAPERS RESEARCH REPORT RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS RISK AVERSION SAMPLE SIZE SCENARIO SCENARIOS SCIENTISTS SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL SIMULATION SIMULATIONS STANDARD DEVIATIONS STANDARD ERRORS STATA STATA CODE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS STATISTICAL METHODS STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE STATISTICAL TESTS TECHNIQUES VALIDITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/9938284/pursuit-balance-randomization-practice-development-field-experiments http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6910

In Pursuit of Balance : Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments

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