Questions tagged [treatment-effect]
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CIA and Exclusion restriction
I have recently got myself confused about CIA and wondered if somebody could perhaps help me disentangle my thoughts. Consider the regression
$Y_i = \alpha_0 + \Delta D_i + \beta X_i + \eta_i$
Where ...
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Controlling for pre-treatment trends in diff-in-diff regression
I am trying to control for pre-treatment trends in my DiD style regression.
My baseline regression is as follows (using Stata):
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Imbens and Angrist (1994): the $D_i(z)$ variables
I'm referring to the Econometrica (1994) paper by Imbens and Angrist. In particular, I don't really understand the random variables $D_i(z)$ (defined on page 468). Could you please provide me with ...
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What is a good AUSTERITY indicator?
I am writing a paper on European poverty and I am using a treatment control setup
similar to Difference-in-Difference methods.
Now, since the data I am using is rather recent, I would like to ...
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How encouragement design works practically?
I'm trying to understand the encouragement design but I have some doubts. For example, if I want to introduce a voucher for teachers that can be used for professional development(the treatment) and I ...
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Self-selection bias during the course of experiments
Suppose you are running a randomized experiment to assess the effect of $X$, say some training program for unemployed people, on $Y$, say the chance of finding a job in the coming year. Suppose also ...
