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treatments are conditionally randomly assigned and the controls are sufficiently flexible to avoid omitted variables bias … treatments. Thus, recent concerns about heterogeneity-induced bias in regressions leveraging potential outcome restrictions (e … contamination bias and propose a new class of efficient estimators of weighted average effects that avoid bias. In a re-analysis of …
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Government analysts have long used discount rates based on investment rates of return to approximate the effect of capital displacement. However, we show how this approach is not well grounded in economic theory and produces highly biased results, particularly in the context of decisions...
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We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project. The data analyzed are the longest follow-up of any randomized early childhood education program. Annual observations of participant...
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In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...
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In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a …
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-in-the-field experiments with over 2,000 individuals in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. We show that: (1) individuals judged to be of a lower rank are …
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that matters? Using a large-scale experiment we decompose the relative importance of partisan messages vs leader sources …
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assisted by AI predictions could outperform both human-alone or AI-alone. We conduct an experiment with professional …
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effects of fake reviews on individual demand and welfare. We conduct an incentive-compatible online experiment with a …
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improving the elicitation wording, coding experiments, and producing documentation. Second, we discuss the implementation of … experiments using LLMs, focusing on enhancing causal inference by creating consistent experiences, improving comprehension of …
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