Research design form

General description

1. Name of the group
2. Research question	What is your research question?
3. Intervention	Describe the intervention you plan to run.
4. Control	Describe what the control group will do or receive, if anything.
5. Unit of analysis	At what level will the intervention be run? For example, on individuals? By groups?
6. Ethics	Consider the ethical implications of your experiment. Are there any potential harms or benefits to participants?

M — Model

7. N	How many units will you have?
8. Main hypothesis	What do you hypothesize for the effect of the treatment?

I — Inquiry

9. Estimand

Describe your question precisely in terms of the treatment, outcome, and any other relevant features of your population. For example, we are interested in the average treatment effect of X on Y (ATE). Or we are interested in the difference of the effect of X on Y for men and for women (a difference in CATEs).

D — Data strategy

10. Randomization	What randomization will you use: simple, complete, cluster, block, factorial, etc.?
11. Main outcome	How will you measure your main outcome?

A — Answer strategy

12. Estimator	What estimator will you use (difference in means, regression, regression with block fixed effects and inverse probability weighting, etc.)?
13. Standard error	What type of standard errors will you use?

Diagnosis

14. Bias	Do you expect your estimator to be unbiased? Why?
15. Statistical power	What is the statistical power of your design?