20.2 Quasi-Experimental

(Goldfarb, Tucker, and Wang 2022) for a review

  • Settings: Weather, border, contract changes, firm policy, life or regulatory changes.

  • Nine Stages to go through in a quasi-experimental design

    1. Research Question

    2. Data Question

    3. Identification Strategy

    4. Empirical Analysis

    5. challenges to research design

    6. Robustness

    7. Mechanism

    8. External validity

    9. Unproven or Caveats

References

Goldfarb, Avi, Catherine Tucker, and Yanwen Wang. 2022. “Conducting Research in Marketing with Quasi-Experiments.” Journal of Marketing 86 (3): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429221082977.