Partial Identification of Distributional Treatment Effects in Panel Data using Copula Equality Assumptions
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| author | Madigasekara, Heshani Poskitt, D. S. Zhang, Lina Zhao, Xueyan |
| author_facet | Madigasekara, Heshani Poskitt, D. S. Zhang, Lina Zhao, Xueyan |
| contents | This paper aims to partially identify the distributional treatment effects (DTEs) that depend on the unknown joint distribution of treated and untreated potential outcomes. We construct the DTE bounds using panel data and allow individuals to switch between the treated and untreated states more than once over time. Individuals are grouped based on their past treatment history, and DTEs are allowed to be heterogeneous across different groups. We provide two alternative group-wise copula equality assumptions to bound the unknown joint and the DTEs, both of which leverage information from the past observations. Testability of these two assumptions are also discussed, and test results are presented. We apply this method to study the treatment effect heterogeneity of exercising on the adults' body weight. These results demonstrate that our method improves the identification power of the DTE bounds compared to the existing methods. |
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| spellingShingle | Partial Identification of Distributional Treatment Effects in Panel Data using Copula Equality Assumptions Madigasekara, Heshani Poskitt, D. S. Zhang, Lina Zhao, Xueyan Econometrics This paper aims to partially identify the distributional treatment effects (DTEs) that depend on the unknown joint distribution of treated and untreated potential outcomes. We construct the DTE bounds using panel data and allow individuals to switch between the treated and untreated states more than once over time. Individuals are grouped based on their past treatment history, and DTEs are allowed to be heterogeneous across different groups. We provide two alternative group-wise copula equality assumptions to bound the unknown joint and the DTEs, both of which leverage information from the past observations. Testability of these two assumptions are also discussed, and test results are presented. We apply this method to study the treatment effect heterogeneity of exercising on the adults' body weight. These results demonstrate that our method improves the identification power of the DTE bounds compared to the existing methods. |
| title | Partial Identification of Distributional Treatment Effects in Panel Data using Copula Equality Assumptions |
| topic | Econometrics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04450 |