Policy Evaluation Assignment
*Note that for questions (1) to (5) you cannot use the questions in the lecture slides.
(1)Write down a survey question (and the possible responses) that suffers from measurement error due to a framing effect.
(2)Write down a survey question (and the possible responses) that suffers from measurement error due to recall bias.
(3)Write down a survey question (and the possible responses) that suffers from measurement error due to anchoring bias.
(4)Write down n survey question (and the possible responses) that suffers measurement error from telescoping bias.
(5)Write down a survey question (and the possible responses) that does not suffer from measurement error.
(6)Why is it important to compare characteristics of individuals in the treatment and control groups in the baseline survey?
(7)What are potential challenges in the Process Evaluation stage of RCTs?
(8)Using the data file from the Balsakhi tutoring program, answer the following question. Hand in your excel file with this assignment, showing all your work.
(a)What is the average pre-test scores for the children who received the tutoring program?
(b)What is the average pre-test scores for the children who did not receive the tutoring program?
(c)What do your answers to (a) and (b) infer about who the teachers selected the students for the program?
(d)What proportion of the male sample are in the treatment schools?
(e)What proportion of males actually received the tutoring program?
(f)What is the average treatment effect on the male sample?
(g)What proportion of the female sample are in the treatment schools?
(h)What proportion of females actually received the tutoring program?
(i)What is the average treatment effect on the female sample?
(j)What do your results from questions (d) through to (i) draw you to conclude about the impact of the program by gender?