Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

By Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan. 2011

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, General Decision Sciences

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Saving more in groups: Field experimental evidence from Chile (2018, background): “ments are required for the effectiveness of the treatment (Ludwig et al., 2011).”
Heterogeneous treatment effects and mechanisms in information-based environmental policies: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment (2013, background): “Ideally we would have designed the experiment explicitly to test mechanism hypotheses (Ludwig et al., 2011) or would have direct observations of the plausible mechanisms (e.”
Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy (2014, methodology): “In that sense, we should think of the kind of policy experimentation being described here partly also as mechanism experiments (see Ludwig et al. 2011).”
Experimental designs for identifying causal mechanisms (2013, background): “Formally, let Zi represent the ternary encouragement variable where it is equal to 1 ( 1) if subject i is positively (negatively) encouraged and is equal to 0 if no such encouragement is given.”
Split-Sample Strategies for Avoiding False Discoveries (2017, background): “This issue is increasingly important as the field moves from experiments that evaluate a specific program or treatment to experiments that inform us about the mechanisms underlying an observed treatment effect or discriminate between different economic models (Card et al. 2011; Ludwig et al. 2011).”
Time versus State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Contract Farming in Kenya (2018, methodology): “Then, guided by the model, we present additional empirical evidence, including from two small mechanism experiments ( Ludwig, Kling, and Mullainathan 2011 , on the role of liquidity constraints, time preferences, and imperfect contract enforcement.”
Shaming tax delinquents (2015, unknown): “It is important to note that we conducted a mechanism experiment (Ludwig et al., 2011) instead of a policy evaluation experiment.”
Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter? (2016, background): “Overall, our sample across the various treatment arms appears balanced on ob7Of course it is not realistic for campaign workers to volunteer for the opposition; however, our study should be viewed as a “mechanism experiment” (Ludwig et al., 2011), one that examines the causal mechanisms by which mis”