4 papers
SMaRT: Online Reusable Resource Assignment and an Application to Mediation in the Kenyan Judiciary
Shafkat Farabi, Didac Marti Pinto, Wei Lu +4
Motivated by the problem of assigning mediators to cases in the Kenyan judicial system, we study an online resource allocation problem where incoming tasks (cases) must be immediat…
Estimating treatment-effect heterogeneity across sites, in multi-site randomized experiments with few units per site
Clément de Chaisemartin, Antoine Deeb
Multi-site randomized experiments, which are common in economics and medicine, can reveal how treatment effects vary across settings. However, differences between site-specific est…
A Framework for Using Value-Added in Regressions
Antoine Deeb
As increasingly popular metrics of worker and institutional quality, estimated value-added (VA) measures are now widely used as dependent or explanatory variables in regressions. F…
Clustering and External Validity in Randomized Controlled Trials
Antoine Deeb, Clément de Chaisemartin
The randomization inference literature studying randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assumes that units' potential outcomes are deterministic. This assumption is unlikely to hold, a…