How to Read Economics Research Papers: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)

This video walks you through how to read economics research papers that use randomized trials (sometimes called randomized controlled trials or randomized clinical trials or RCTs).
First, we’ll learn how to read descriptive statistics and check for balance between control and treatment groups. Then we’ll move onto reading study results, including an explanation of why regression is used with randomized controlled trials.
This video builds off of Josh Angrist’s introduction to randomized trials (link below) that featured an economics research study from the Economics of Education Review. This research paper covered a randomized trial conducted at West Point that measured the impact of classroom electronics on learning.
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Couldn’t understand one thing, please if someone can help me.
It said if the treatment effect is more than two times of standard error then it is statistically significant, in this video the difference is not twice , it is stands at 1, then still how they are saying it is experimental intervention? Is it good to be the number less than 2 or how does it works? Still confused, any help clarification will be highly appreciated. Thank You.

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1. At 10:15 when talking about adding Demographic Controls to the regression, why does it have an X instead of effect sizes and standard errors of that covariate?
Is it because Demographic controls is actually a combination of age and sex as described at 10:20? Or is it because it's effect size is not of interest so not reported? (If the researchers already took the trouble to setup and conduct the experiment, why not just reveal these effect sizes too?)
2. What does holding constant factors such as age an sex mean? Does it mean the study must have people with all the same age and same sex so these 2 attributes are a constant number, or "hold constant" actually means "including in the regression equation" but not actually requiring the rows to have constant values.

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