Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and Treatment Effects? Reassessing Whether Nonexperimental Estimators are Biased

Kenneth Fortson, Philip Gleason, Emma Kopa and Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz

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Abstract: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard in estimating treatment effects. When an RCT is infeasible, regression modeling or statistical matching are often used instead.

Keywords: Treatment effects; Randomized controlled trials; Nonexperimental methods; Within-study comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2015-02-28
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