Dear David,
Here are two additional references refuting, incidentally, the Levitt and List (2008) article:
- Stephen T. Ziliak (2013) "Balanced Versus Randomized Field in Experiments in Economics: Why W.S. Gosset aka 'Student' Matters", Review of Behavioral Economics 1 (1): 1-42.
- Stephen T. Ziliak (2011) "W.S. Gosset and Some Neglected Concepts in Experimental Statistics: Guinnessometrics II", Journal of Wine Economics 6 (2): 252-277.
In the early 1900s randomized field trials were tried by Gosset at Guinness - around a half century before Hill and others brought them to medicine.
Gosset rejected randomized trials, discovering that balanced designs are more precise and more efficient.
Cheers,
Steve Ziliak
Professor of Economics
Roosevelt University, Chicago
http://sites.roosevelt.edu/sziliak
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Dear all,
These are the references I gathered from you, thanks!
- Ann Oakley (2000) "A historical Perspective on the Use of Randomized Trials in Social Science Settings", Crime and Delinquency, 46(3): 315-329
- Robert Ferber and Werner Hirsch (1982), Social Experimentation and Economic Policy, Cambridge University Press.
- Levitt and List (2008), "Field experiments in economics, the past, the present and the future", NBER Working paper No. 14356
- David Greenberg and Mark Shroder, THE DIGEST OF SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS, www.urban.org/pubs/digest/<http://www.urban.org/pubs/digest/>
- Malcon Rutheford, Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 1900-1930. In Harro Maas and Mary Morgan (eds.), Histories of Observation in Economics. Annual Supplement to Volume 44, History of Political Economy, Durham NC: Duke University Press, pp.185-205.
Judith Favereau just produced a doctoral dissertation on field trials in development economics . Chung-Tang Cheng, a student of Hsiag-Ke Chao, recently wrote a master thesis on the methodology of field experiments.
Best
David
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