Quantifying balance for casual inference: An information theoretic perspective

Impact evaluation is concerned with generating evidence of a causal effect of a policy or a treatment. The central question in any impact evaluation is what would have happened to those receiving the intervention had they not received it. Randomized controlled Trials (RCT) are best at answering this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oyenubi, Adeola
Other Authors: Wittenberg, Martin
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28123