Comments on: Never Too LATE, Part 1

By: Intrahousehold economic models and their implications « Maryandmusic's Blog

Intrahousehold economic models and their implications « Maryandmusic's Blog — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:38:28 +0000

[...] A note about fieldwork: In development economics, randomized control trials (RCT) is widely used to ensure the causal relationship between a policy and the goal is measured. One of the difficulties conducting randomized controlled trials in developing countries is that interaction between people happens a lot and is likely to contaminate the results. As suggested by one of my classmates, RCT can be quite difficult in the setting of mobile phone use, because people can borrow each others’ phones. Furthermore, there can always be non-compliers in the experiment, so what we measure is in fact the Local Average Treating Effects, i.e. LATE (see Professor Bellemare’s post). [...]

By: Never Too LATE, Part 3: Observational Data | Marc F. Bellemare

Never Too LATE, Part 3: Observational Data | Marc F. Bellemare — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:03:26 +0000

[...] Data Last week I wrote two posts about the local average treatment effect (LATE). Click here for part 1, and here for part 2, in which I respectively discuss the difference between the ATE [...]

By: Never Too LATE, Part 2 | Marc F. Bellemare

Never Too LATE, Part 2 | Marc F. Bellemare — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:01:27 +0000

[...] Too LATE, Part 2 I began this discussion on Tuesday with an example in order to define the concept of local average treatment effect [...]