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Replication Data for: Nonignorable Attrition in Pairwise Randomized Experiments

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Title Replication Data for: Nonignorable Attrition in Pairwise Randomized Experiments
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/O9WE06
 
Creator Fukumoto, Kentaro
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description In pairwise randomized experiments, what if the outcomes of some units are missing? One solution is to delete missing units (the unitwise deletion estimator, UDE). If attrition is non-ignorable, however, the UDE is biased. Instead, scholars might employ the pairwise deletion estimator (PDE), which deletes the pairmates of missing units as well. This study proves that the PDE can be biased but more efficient than the UDE and, surprisingly, the conventional variance estimator of the PDE is unbiased in a super-population. I also propose a new variance estimator for the UDE and argue that it is easier to interpret the PDE as a causal effect than the UDE. To conclude, I recommend the PDE rather than the UDE.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Local average treatment effect, Matched-pair design, Not missing at random, Principal effect, Potential outcome.
 
Contributor Fukumoto, Kentaro