Sample size calculations and clustered data

Content for Thursday, February 15, 2024

Readings

• Chapter 13.3 in The Effect (Huntington-Klein 2021)
• Chapter 6 in Running Randomized Evaluations (Glennerster and Takavarasha 2013)
• Chapter 15 in Impact Evaluation in Practice (Gertler et al. 2016)

Videos

Video 33 from this playlist accompanies Chapter 15 in The Effect. Watching it is optional.

Slides

On the day of class, you will find my slides on Canvas.

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.

Glennerster, Rachel, and Kudzai Takavarasha. 2013. Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide. Princeton: Princeton University Press. http://runningres.com/.

Huntington-Klein, Nick. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman and Hall / CRC. https://theeffectbook.net/.