being in the treatment group - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Description acceptable. This status is assigned to those strictly above a cutoff in sharp regression discontinuity designs for the “quasi” form of one process. For 10 points each:

[10h] Describe this status. Guido Imbens and Joshua Angrist developed a “local average effect” to filter out cases of those given this status who do not comply.

ANSWER: being in the treatment group [accept equivalents like receiving an intervention or being in the experimental group; accept Local Average Treatment Effect]

[10e] Treatments that correlate with the error can be mitigated using “instrumental” ones of these things. Regression is used to find the relationship between these things’ “dependent” and “independent” types.

ANSWER: variables [accept independent variables or dependent variables; accept instrumental variables]

[10m] This process is used on propensity scores of subjects in treatment and control groups to reduce confounding. A type of blocking design partly named for this process assigns paired subjects to different groups.

ANSWER: matching [accept matched-pairs design; accept propensity score matching]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	12.50	100%	13%	13%
North	Main	Y	11	11.82	100%	9%	9%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Berkeley D	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley E	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford C	0	10	0	10
Berkeley F	UCSC	0	10	0	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCI	0	10	0	10
Claremont Scripps	UCLA A	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	USC	0	10	0	10
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCSB	10	10	0	20
Western Ontario	Guelph A	0	10	0	10
Guelph B	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Toronto E	McMaster C	0	10	0	10
McMaster A	Ottawa	0	10	0	10
Queen's B	McGill C	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	Toronto H	0	10	0	10
Queen's A	Toronto I	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Toronto J	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Toronto K	0	10	0	10
Toronto F	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	Waterloo	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	0	10
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCLA C	0	10	0	10
ERAU A	FSU	0	10	0	10
Melbourne A	UF D	0	10	0	10
USF	ERAU B	0	10	0	10
UF A	FIU	0	10	0	10
UF E	UCF B	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
CWRU C	MSU B	0	10	10	20
Kenyon A	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	MSU A	0	10	0	10
OSU A	OSU B	0	10	0	10
OSU C	OSU D	0	10	0	10
Pitt C	CWRU D	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	James Madison	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	Tusculum	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Virginia B	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	Roanoke	0	10	0	10
NC State	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UF B	0	10	0	10
Catholic University	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
George Mason C	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown B	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Georgetown A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins C	Penn B	0	10	0	10
UMBC A	Notre Dame E	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Swarthmore A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Rutgers C	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	VCU A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Maryland D	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A	Rowan A	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Missouri A	0	10	0	10
WashU C	William Woods	0	10	0	10
WashU D	Truman State	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
UAB A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Huntsville B	0	10	0	10
Huntsville A	Sewanee A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Birmingham A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Bristol A	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	City St George's A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Durham A	0	10	0	10
Imperial C	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Manchester A	LSE A	0	10	0	10
Bristol B	Manchester B	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Oxford A	0	10	0	10
Sheffield B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Lancaster A	Sheffield C	0	10	0	10
Sheffield A	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
RIT B	Cornell-DII	0	10	0	10
Rochester	ESF	0	10	0	10
Binghamton B	Syracuse	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	0	10	0	10