Dear POLMETH community,

 

I am currently working on an encouragement design and I was wondering if
anyone has any advice on (or experience with) varying the "intensity" of the
encouragement.  

 

For instance, assuming a sample of 750 (525 treatment and 225 control), I
want to vary the number of reminders to listen to a radio program. Everybody
in the treatment group will receive at least 1 reminder but half will
receive, say, 3 or 4 reminders.  Since my expectation is that those who
receive more encouragements will be more likely to comply, I suppose this
may have some implications for estimating the CACE. Of course, this also
means there will be two different ITTs and two different compliance rates.

 

Are there any issues I should be aware of for such a design? Any advice or
suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

 

Best regards,  

 

Reynaldo T. Rojo Mendoza

PhD Candidate

Department of Political Science

University of Pittsburgh

 <http://reyrojomendoza.com/> http://reyrojomendoza.com 

 


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