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Designing Randomized Controlled Trials with External Validity in Mind
Chassang, Sylvain; Kapon, Samuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper describes a number of strategies that experimenters may use to improve the external validity of their own findings, and of their research field as a whole. The paper emphasizes a dynamic view of research processes, in which learning about treatment and treatment adoption does not...
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The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2008
As an empirical example of this externality, we analyze the innovation induced by the obesity epidemic. Obesity is … associated with an increase in the incidence of many diseases. The induced innovation hypothesis is that an increase in the … incidence of a disease will increase technological innovation specific to that disease. The empirical economics literature has …
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