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Evan Rosenman; Rina Friedberg; Michael Baiocchi – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background and Context: In 2016, our team designed and implemented a cluster-randomized trial of a school-based empowerment training program, targeting adolescent girls in Nairobi, Kenya (Baiocchi et al., 2019; Rosenman et al., 2020). In that study, the primary outcome was the experience of sexual violence in the prior year. Participants disclosed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Females, Sexual Abuse
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Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Filmer, Deon; McIntyre, Joe – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and regression discontinuity (RD) studies both provide estimates of causal effects. A major difference between the two is that RD only estimates local average treatment effects (LATE) near the cutoff point of the forcing variable. This has been cited as a drawback to RD designs (Cook & Wong, 2008).…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Regression (Statistics), Research Problems, Comparative Analysis