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发布日期:2018-11-19 08:53 来源:北京大学国家发展研究院
Estimating Quantiles of the Distribution of
Treatment Effects without Rank Preservation
时间: 2018年11月23日(周五)13:30 – 15:00
地点: 北京大学国家发展研究院万众楼小教室
主持人: 雷晓燕、张丹丹、赵耀辉
报告人: Mathias Sinning
摘要: This paper proposes an approach to estimate quantile treatment effects in the absence of rank preservation under the identifying assumption that treatment assignment is based on observed characteristics. The approach allows us to define quantile treatment effects as quantiles of the differences in outcomes between treatment and control units. We employ coarsened exact matching (CEM) (Iacus, King, and Porro, 2012) to calculate differences in outcomes between matched treatment and control units, which are used to derive estimators of the quantile treatment effect (QTE) and the quantile treatment effect on the treated (QTT). We prove consistency and asymptotic normality of our estimators and show that replacing the variances with estimated variances does not affect the asymptotic distributions. We apply the approach to study the effects of a job training program on earnings. We find that while the average treatment effect on the treated is positive, about 35% of individuals in the treatment group have significantly lower earnings than comparable individuals in the control group.
报告人简介:Mathias Sinning is the Deputy Director of the ANU Tax and Transfer Policy Institute. He has previously held academic appointments at the ANU and the University of Queensland and has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. Mathias is interested in the empirical analysis of issues related to labor economics, public economics and policy evaluation. He has published articles in journals such as Economic Inquiry, Health Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. He is currently working on the projects “Understanding Dynamic Aspects of Economic Inequality” and “Applying Behavioral Insights to the Tax System in Australia” funded by the Australian Research Council. He is a Research Fellow of RWI Essen, IZA Bonn and the CReAM Centre at University College London.
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