Threats to validity
Content for Thursday, February 16, 2023
Readings
- Guido Imbens, “Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty” (Imbens 2021). This is available on iCollege, and it’s also free here.
- Randall Munroe, “Significant”
- Alexander Coppock, “10 Things to Know About Statistical Power”
- Play around with FiveThirtyEight, “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory”
- Chapter 9 in Impact Evaluation in Practice (Gertler et al. 2016)
- Chapter 11 in The Effect (Huntington-Klein 2021)
Slides
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Videos
Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.
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In-class stuff
Here are all the materials we’ll use in class:
References
Gertler, Paul J., Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, and Christel M. J. Vermeersch. 2016. Impact Evaluation in Practice. 2nd ed. Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.
Huntington-Klein, Nick. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman and Hall / CRC. https://theeffectbook.net/.
Imbens, Guido W. 2021. “Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 35 (3, Summer): 157–74. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.35.3.157.