A new statistical tool can help researchers get meaningful results when a randomized experiment, considered the gold standard, is not possible. A new statistical tool can help researchers get ...

Economics often borrows ideas from the sciences, yet unlike physics or chemistry, no country has ever run a controlled, pure economic experiment on a national scale. A pure experiment requires ...

The number-one job of a marketer is to invest budget wisely to drive sales. That inherently requires accurately measuring the performance of that spending. Yet most advertisers still rely on flawed ...

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs; sometimes referred to as A/B tests) are considered the gold standard for evidence in science and medicine. If you took anything away from your Research Methods 101 ...

Kluender, Raymond, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. "The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32315, April 2024.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objective The increasing availability of large administrative datasets has led to an exciting innovation in criminal justice research—using ...

In this column, we believe in randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trials. Others may start popping a new supplement because their friend said it made them feel good, strap on the latest ...