Randomization in Practice

Overview

In this module, we’ll be learning how to randomly assign treatment status in a way that is transparent and reproducible. After assigning treatments, we’ll check whether we’ve succeeded in creating a treatment group and a control group that are comparable in terms of their observable characteristics.

Readings

Running Randomized Evaluations: Chapter 4

Lecture Slides

A handout version of the lecture slides is available here.

Empirical Exercise

The in-class activity is available as a pdf, as is the empirical exercise.

A web version of the empirical exercise is available here.