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Quantile treatment effects in the regression discontinuity design: Process results and gini coefficient

This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design. The distributional impacts of social programs such as welfare, education, training programs and unemployment insurance are of large interest to economists. QTE are an intuitive tool to characterize the effects of these interventions on the outcome distribution. We propose uniformly consistent estimators for both potential outcome distributions (treated and non-treated) for the population of interest as well as other function-valued effects of the policy including in particular the QTE process. The estimators are straightforward to implement and attain the optimal rate of convergence for one-dimensional nonparametric regression. We apply the proposed estimators to estimate the effects of summer school on the distribution of school grades, complementing the results of Jacob and Lefgren (2004).

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4993

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Estimation: General
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Thema
Quantile treatment effect
causal effect
endogeneity
regression discontinuity
Regression
Nichtparametrisches Verfahren
Kausalanalyse
Theorie
Bildungspolitik
Wirkungsanalyse
Schätzung
Chicago (Ill.)

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Frölich, Markus
Melly, Blaise
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2010

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Frölich, Markus
  • Melly, Blaise
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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