Very important, thorough, and careful new paper strengthens Clifford, Sheagley, and Piston's (2021, APSR) evidence that pre-post designs don't attenuate treatment effects very much relative to the shrinkage in the standard errors.

Measure outcomes before and after the treatment!
Reposted from Andrew Trexler
New paper with @dianamejordan.bsky.social and sky-less Trent Ollerenshaw! We provide large-N tests of repeated measure designs in survey experiments, showing that they slightly attenuate ATEs relative to post-only designs, but provide large gains to precision. Thread below.

Preprint: osf.io/q6czp

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