Natural Experiments

Natural experiment ... A natural experiment is a study in which individuals (or clusters of individuals) are exposed to the experimental and control conditions ...

What are 'natural experiments' - The Scottish Government

Natural experiments are observational studies which can be undertaken to assess the outcomes and impacts of policy interventions.

Natural experiment | Observational Study & Benefits - Britannica

Natural experiment, observational study in which an event or a situation that allows for the random or seemingly random assignment of study subjects to ...

Conceptualising natural and quasi experiments in public health

Natural or quasi experiments are appealing for public health research because they enable the evaluation of events or interventions that are ...

“Natural Experiments” in Health Care Research - JAMA Network

Methods for evaluating changes in health care policy: the difference-in-differences approach. JAMA. 2014;312(22):2401-2402.

Natural Experiments: An Overview of Methods, Approaches, and ...

Natural experiment (NE) approaches are attracting growing interest as a way of providing evidence in such circumstances. One key challenge in ...

Natural experiments help answer important questions - Nobel Prize

This year's Laureates – David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens – have shown that natural experiments can be used to answer central questions for ...

Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions

This paper introduces new guidance from the Medical Research Council to help researchers and users, funders and publishers of research evidence make the best ...

Natural Experiments (Chapter 6) - Advances in Experimental ...

I define a natural experiment as a research study where the treatment assignment mechanism (i) is neither designed nor implemented by the researcher, (ii) is ...

Using natural experiments to improve public health evidence

Natural experiments are increasingly valued as a way to assess the health impact of health and non-health interventions when planned ...

Natural experiment methodology for research: a review of how ...

A natural experiment occurs when a particular intervention has been implemented but the circumstances surrounding the implementation are not under the control ...

What Are Natural Experiments and How Do Economists Use Them?

A natural experiment is defined as an empirical study in which the control and experimental variables are not artificially manipulated by ...

Capitalizing on Natural Experiments to Improve Our Understanding ...

Observational studies are critical to understanding the production of population health across the full range of exposures and contexts.

Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics - ScienceDirect.com

Natural experiments have been used to verify underlying assumptions of conventional models, quantify specific model parameters, and identify mechanisms.

Natural Experiments: Design Elements for Optimal Causal Inference ...

Combining design elements produces the strongest possible evidence on whether a law caused the hypothesized effect and magnitude of that effect. Well-designed ...

Natural "Natural Experiments" in Economics

Natural "Natural Experiments" in Economics by Mark R. Rosenzweig and Kenneth I. Wolpin. Published in volume 38, issue 4, pages 827-874 of Journal of ...

natural and quasi- experiments in economics

certainly give it more emphasis. A couple of examples illustrate how a natural experiment may allow the study of the effects of exogenous variation in an ...

Methods - natural experiments - Institut des Politiques Publiques – IPP

The use of exogenous “shocks”. A “natural experiment” describes a situation in which an exogenous “shock” affects the economic environment of the agents ...

Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

Part I - Discovering natural experiments. pp 39-40 ... Access ... 2 - Standard natural experiments. pp 41-62 ... Access ... 3 - Regression-discontinuity designs. pp 63- ...

6. Natural Experiments and Quasi-Experiments - APSA Educate

A quasi-experiment is an experiment that looks like a true, randomized experiment, but lacks random assignment.