6.1 Ideal experiments: Basics

• What is the ideal experiment to capture the treatment/causal effect? (Angrist and Pischke 2008)
• May serve as benchmark for your design/identification strategy
• Problem.. journal space often too limited
  • I try to include them.. (e.g. Bauer 2015, 399; Bauer, Keusch, and Kreuter 2019, 2–3)
• You’ll have to provide one in your term paper as well!

References

Angrist, Joshua D, and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2008. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Bauer, Paul C. 2015. “Negative Experiences and Trust: A Causal Analysis of the Effects of Victimization on Generalized Trust.” Eur. Sociol. Rev. 31 (4): 397–417.

Bauer, Paul C, Florian Keusch, and Frauke Kreuter. 2019. “Trust and Cooperative Behavior: Evidence from the Realm of Data-Sharing.” PLoS One 14 (8): e0220115.