Randomzied Trials
Readings
Understanding Development and Poverty Alleviation
J-PAL: A Balancing Act
Mentioned in Lecture
J-PAL: Deworming: A Best Buy for Development
Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities
Class Materials
Lab
In this lab, we will use (some of) the data from the paper Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial by Jessica Cohen, Pascaline Dupas, and Simone Schaner, published in the American Economic Review in 2015. The authors examine behavioral responses to various discounts (“subsidies”) for malaria treatment, called “artemisinin combination therapy” or “ACT.” An overview of the randomized evalaution is available here. The data that we will use for this lab is available here.
You can complete the lab in either Stata or R, though I recommend Stata for first and second year students planning to major in economics. The lab templates will also coach you through all of the steps required to complete the lab. Make sure to add your code to the template so that you can easily replicate all of the steps in your analysis.
The Stata template is available here.
The R template is available here.