Heterogeneous Effects of Endogenous Treatments with Interference and Spillovers in a Large Network
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| contents | This paper studies the identification and estimation of heterogeneous effects of an endogenous treatment under interference and spillovers in a large single-network setting. We model endogenous treatment selection as an equilibrium outcome that explicitly accounts for spillovers and derive conditions guaranteeing the existence and uniqueness of this equilibrium. We then identify heterogeneous marginal exposure effects (MEEs), which may vary with both the treatment status of neighboring nodes and unobserved heterogeneity. We develop estimation strategies and establish their large-sample properties. Equipped with these tools, we analyze the heterogeneous effects of import competition on U.S. local labor markets in the presence of interference and spillovers. We find negative MEEs, consistent with the existing literature. However, these effects are amplified by spillovers in the presence of treated neighbors and among localities that tend to select into lower levels of import competition. These additional empirical findings are novel and would not be credibly obtainable without the econometric framework proposed in this paper. |
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| spellingShingle | Heterogeneous Effects of Endogenous Treatments with Interference and Spillovers in a Large Network Chen, Lin Sasaki, Yuya Econometrics This paper studies the identification and estimation of heterogeneous effects of an endogenous treatment under interference and spillovers in a large single-network setting. We model endogenous treatment selection as an equilibrium outcome that explicitly accounts for spillovers and derive conditions guaranteeing the existence and uniqueness of this equilibrium. We then identify heterogeneous marginal exposure effects (MEEs), which may vary with both the treatment status of neighboring nodes and unobserved heterogeneity. We develop estimation strategies and establish their large-sample properties. Equipped with these tools, we analyze the heterogeneous effects of import competition on U.S. local labor markets in the presence of interference and spillovers. We find negative MEEs, consistent with the existing literature. However, these effects are amplified by spillovers in the presence of treated neighbors and among localities that tend to select into lower levels of import competition. These additional empirical findings are novel and would not be credibly obtainable without the econometric framework proposed in this paper. |
| title | Heterogeneous Effects of Endogenous Treatments with Interference and Spillovers in a Large Network |
| topic | Econometrics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14515 |