Optimal Experimental Design for Error Components Models

Dennis J Aigner and Pietro Balestra

Econometrica, 1988, vol. 56, issue 4, 955-71

Abstract: Social experiments are characterized by their high cost. A tempting alternative to the establishment of a contemporaneous statistical control group is preexempt observat ion of the treatment group. In this paper, the authors analyze the tr ade-off between these two types of "con-trol" as functions of their relative cost and information content in a multiperiod error compone nts framework, where the allocation of observations across the two gr oups is always done in an optimal manner. Solutions for the optimal p roportion of the sample to be devoted to the contemporaneous control group are presented and their behavior as a function of relevant para meters is studied. Copyright 1988 by The Econometric Society.

Date: 1988
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