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BCOE systems provide a rigorous, practical framework for program evaluation when RCTs are infeasible. By enforcing explicit cohort balancing and longitudinal measurement, BCOE reduces selection bias substantially relative to naive pre-post designs. However, researchers must remain cautious about unobserved confounders and differential time trends. Future work should develop hybrid BCOE-RCT designs (e.g., randomized encouragement with BCOE analysis) and extend BCOE to multi-site evaluations.

BCOE generalizes to populations similar to the balanced cohorts. Generalization to unrepresented subgroups requires explicit transportability analysis. bcoe systems

Because balancing discards unmatched observations, effective sample size shrinks, reducing power compared to full-sample regression. BCOE systems provide a rigorous, practical framework for

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