A difference-in-differences estimator by covariate balancing propensity score
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| author | Li, Junjie Matsushita, Yukitoshi |
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| contents | This article develops a covariate balancing approach for the estimation of treatment effects on the treated (ATT) in a difference-in-differences (DID) research design when panel data are available. We show that the proposed covariate balancing propensity score (CBPS) DID estimator possesses several desirable properties: (i) local efficiency, (ii) double robustness in terms of consistency, (iii) double robustness in terms of inference, and (iv) faster convergence to the ATT compared to the augmented inverse probability weighting (AIPW) DID estimators when both working models are locally misspecified. These latter two characteristics set the CBPS DID estimator apart from the AIPW DID estimator theoretically. Simulation studies and an empirical study demonstrate the desirable finite sample performance of the proposed estimator. |
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| spellingShingle | A difference-in-differences estimator by covariate balancing propensity score Li, Junjie Matsushita, Yukitoshi Econometrics This article develops a covariate balancing approach for the estimation of treatment effects on the treated (ATT) in a difference-in-differences (DID) research design when panel data are available. We show that the proposed covariate balancing propensity score (CBPS) DID estimator possesses several desirable properties: (i) local efficiency, (ii) double robustness in terms of consistency, (iii) double robustness in terms of inference, and (iv) faster convergence to the ATT compared to the augmented inverse probability weighting (AIPW) DID estimators when both working models are locally misspecified. These latter two characteristics set the CBPS DID estimator apart from the AIPW DID estimator theoretically. Simulation studies and an empirical study demonstrate the desirable finite sample performance of the proposed estimator. |
| title | A difference-in-differences estimator by covariate balancing propensity score |
| topic | Econometrics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02097 |