A Primer on the Analysis of Randomized Experiments and a Survey of some Recent Advances

• Main Authors: Bai, Yuehao, Shaikh, Azeem M, Tabord-Meehan, Max
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 06-05-2024
• Subjects: Statistics - Methodology
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.03910

The past two decades have witnessed a surge of new research in the analysis
of randomized experiments. The emergence of this literature may seem surprising
given the widespread use and long history of experiments as the "gold standard"
in program evaluation, but this body of work has revealed many subtle aspects
of randomized experiments that may have been previously unappreciated. This
article provides an overview of some of these topics, primarily focused on
stratification, regression adjustment, and cluster randomization.