| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26993 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26993 |
| In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plans for RCTs in Economics | |
| Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo; Amy Finkelstein; Lawrence F. Katz; Benjamin A. Olken; Anja Sautmann | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-04-20 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Pre-Analysis Plans (PAPs) for randomized evaluations are becoming increasingly common in Economics, but their definition remains unclear and their practical applications therefore vary widely. Based on our collective experiences as researchers and editors, we articulate a set of principles for the ex-ante scope and ex-post use of PAPs. We argue that the key benefits of a PAP can usually be realized by completing the registration fields in the AEA RCT Registry. Specific cases where more detail may be warranted include when subgroup analysis is expected to be particularly important, or a party to the study has a vested interest. However, a strong norm for more detailed pre-specification can be detrimental to knowledge creation when implementing field experiments in the real world. An ex-post requirement of strict adherence to pre-specified plans, or the discounting of non-pre-specified work, may mean that some experiments do not take place, or that interesting observations and new theories are not explored and reported. Rather, we recommend that the final research paper be written and judged as a distinct object from the “results of the PAP”; to emphasize this distinction, researchers could consider producing a short, publicly available report (the “populated PAP”) that populates the PAP to the extent possible and briefly discusses any barriers to doing so. |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26993 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584666 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Abhijit Banerjee,Esther Duflo,Amy Finkelstein,et al. In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plans for RCTs in Economics. 2020. |
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| w26993.pdf（108KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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