On Minimizing the Risk of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics

Estimation of empirical relationships is prone to bias. Economists have carefully studied sources of bias in structural and quasi-experimental approaches, but the randomized control trial (RCT) has only begun to receive such scrutiny. In this paper, we argue that several lessons from medicine, deriv...

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Main Authors: Eble, Alex, Boone, Peter, Elbourne, Diana
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31473