A Primer on the Analysis of Randomized Experiments and a Survey of some Recent Advances

Y Bai, AM Shaikh, M Tabord-Meehan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03910, 2024 - arxiv.org
The past two decades have witnessed a surge of new research in the analysis of
randomized experiments. The emergence of this literature may seem surprising given the …

The transfer performance of economic models

I Andrews, D Fudenberg, L Lei, A Liang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Economists often estimate models using data from a particular domain, eg estimating risk
preferences in a particular subject pool or for a specific class of lotteries. Whether a model's …

Model-robust and efficient covariate adjustment for cluster-randomized experiments

B Wang, C Park, DS Small, F Li - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Cluster-randomized experiments are increasingly used to evaluate interventions in routine
practice conditions, and researchers often adopt model-based methods with covariate …

On the efficiency of finely stratified experiments

Y Bai, J Liu, AM Shaikh, M Tabord-Meehan - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper studies the efficient estimation of a large class of treatment effect parameters that
arise in the analysis of experiments. Here, efficiency is understood to be with respect to a …

Inference in cluster randomized trials with matched pairs

Y Bai, J Liu, AM Shaikh, M Tabord-Meehan - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper considers the problem of inference in cluster randomized trials where treatment
status is determined according to a" matched pairs''design. Here, by a cluster randomized …

Non-robustness of the cluster-robust inference: with a proposal of a new robust method

Y Sasaki, Y Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16991, 2022 - arxiv.org
The conventional cluster-robust (CR) standard errors may not be robust. They are
vulnerable to data that contain a small number of large clusters. When a researcher uses the …

Inference for two-stage experiments under covariate-adaptive randomization

J Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09016, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper studies inference in two-stage randomized experiments under covariate-adaptive
randomization. In the initial stage of this experimental design, clusters (eg, households …

[PDF][PDF] On the Inconsistency of Cluster-Robust Inference and How Subsampling Can Fix It

HD Chiang, Y Sasaki, Y Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - economics.sas.upenn.edu
Conventional methods of cluster-robust inference are inconsistent in the presence of
unignorably large clusters. We formalize this claim by establishing a necessary and …

[PDF][PDF] The University of Chicago

H Liu - United States, 2016 - knowledge.uchicago.edu
This paper studies inference in randomized controlled trials with multiple treatments, where
treatment status is determined according to a “matched tuples” design. If there are| D …

Design-based estimation theory for complex experiments

H Chang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.06891, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper considers the estimation of treatment effects in randomized experiments with
complex experimental designs, including cases with interference between units. We develop …