A General Approach to Relaxing Unconfoundedness
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| author | Masten, Matthew A. Poirier, Alexandre Ren, Muyang |
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| contents | This paper defines a general class of relaxations of the unconfoundedness assumption. This class includes several previous approaches as special cases, including the marginal sensitivity model of Tan (2006). This class therefore allows us to precisely compare and contrast these previously disparate relaxations. We use this class to derive a variety of new identification results which can be used to assess sensitivity to unconfoundedness. In particular, the prior literature focuses on average parameters, like the average treatment effect (ATE). We move beyond averages by providing sharp bounds for a large class of parameters, including both the quantile treatment effect (QTE) and the distribution of treatment effects (DTE), results which were previously unknown even for the marginal sensitivity model. |
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| spellingShingle | A General Approach to Relaxing Unconfoundedness Masten, Matthew A. Poirier, Alexandre Ren, Muyang Econometrics Methodology This paper defines a general class of relaxations of the unconfoundedness assumption. This class includes several previous approaches as special cases, including the marginal sensitivity model of Tan (2006). This class therefore allows us to precisely compare and contrast these previously disparate relaxations. We use this class to derive a variety of new identification results which can be used to assess sensitivity to unconfoundedness. In particular, the prior literature focuses on average parameters, like the average treatment effect (ATE). We move beyond averages by providing sharp bounds for a large class of parameters, including both the quantile treatment effect (QTE) and the distribution of treatment effects (DTE), results which were previously unknown even for the marginal sensitivity model. |
| title | A General Approach to Relaxing Unconfoundedness |
| topic | Econometrics Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15400 |