Empirical Specifications - Ranking

The following priority rules determine which empirical specifications are collected as IDEAL-preferred:

Stratification adjustment > No stratification adjustment
Baseline outcome included > Baseline outcome not included
No other controls included > Other controls included
Pre-treatment, static, exogenous controls > Post-treatment, non-static, endogenous controls

Based on these rules, the IDEAL-preferred specification ranking is as follows, from highest (1) to lowest (8) preferred specification:

#	Strata correction	Baseline outcome	Other controls	No other controls
1	✓	✓
2	✓			✓
3	✓	✓	✓
4	✓		✓
5		✓
6				✓
7		✓	✓
8			✓

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