
This paper formalizes the design of experiments intended specifically to study spillover effects. By first randomizing the intensity of treatment within clusters and then randomly assigning individual treatment conditional on this cluster-level intensity, a novel set of treatment effects can be identified. We develop a formal framework for consistent estimation of these effects, and provide explicit expressions for power calculations. We show that the power to detect average treatment effects declines precisely with the quantity that identifies the novel treatment effects. A demonstration of the technique is provivded using a cash transfer program in Malawi.
Disease Control&Prevention,Science Education,Scientific Research&Science Parks,Technology Industry,Labor Policies, Experimental Design, Networks, Cash Transfers, jel: jel:I25, jel: jel:C93, jel: jel:O22
Disease Control&Prevention,Science Education,Scientific Research&Science Parks,Technology Industry,Labor Policies, Experimental Design, Networks, Cash Transfers, jel: jel:I25, jel: jel:C93, jel: jel:O22
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