The Hawthorne Effect: What Do We Really Learn from Watching Teachers (and...
We are delighted that Dave Evans has agreed to be a semi-regular contributor to this blog, agreeing to post about once a month. David is a Senior Economist in the Chief Economist's Office for the...
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This post is co-authored with Brinda Gokul Many who work on impact evaluation are familiar with the concept of the Hawthorne effect and its potential risk to the accurate inference of causal impact....
View ArticleWhat does a game-theoretic model with belief-dependent preferences teach us...
The June 2017 issue of the Economic Journal has a paper entitled “Assignment procedure biases in randomized policy experiments” (ungated version). The abstract summarizes the claim of the paper:“We...
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