Arbeitspapier
Nonparametric tests for treatment effect heterogeneity
A large part of the recent literature on program evaluation has focused on estimation of the average effect of the treatment under assumptions of unconfoundedness or ignorability following the seminal work by Rubin (1974) and Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983). In many cases however, researchers are interested in the effects of programs beyond estimates of the overall average or the average for the subpopulation of treated individuals. It may be of substantive interest to investigate whether there is any subpopulation for which a program or treatment has a nonzero average effect, or whether there is heterogeneity in the effect of the treatment. The hypothesis that the average effect of the treatment is zero for all subpopulations is also important for researchers interested in assessing assumptions concerning the selection mechanism. In this paper we develop two nonparametric tests. The first test is for the null hypothesis that the treatment has a zero average effect for any subpopulation defined by covariates. The second test is for the null hypothesis that the average effect conditional on the covariates is identical for all subpopulations, in other words, that there is no heterogeneity in average treatment effects by covariates. Sacrificing some generality by focusing on these two specific null hypotheses we derive tests that are straightforward to implement.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2091
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
- Thema
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average treatment effects
causality
unconfoundedness
treatment effect heterogeneity
Nichtparametrisches Verfahren
Mikroökonometrie
Theorie
Nichtparametrisches Verfahren
Mikroökonometrie
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Crump, Richard K.
Hotz, V. Joseph
Imbens, Guido W.
Mitnik, Oscar A.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2006
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Crump, Richard K.
- Hotz, V. Joseph
- Imbens, Guido W.
- Mitnik, Oscar A.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2006
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