Excludability is a Matter of Research Design: How to Conduct Credible Indirect Manipulations

• In Event: Proposals for and Applications of New Experimental Designs

Brief Overview

We offer a design-based approach that explores the exclusion criterion. It uses theoretical arguments to design encouragements that are then tested iteratively using manipulation checks and estimation of first-stage effects on posited mediators.

Authors

• Libby Jenke, University of Houston

• Donald P Green, Columbia University