Arbeitspapier

Program Evaluation and Random Program Starts

This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that, without additional assumptions, it is not possible to estimate the average treatment effect and treatment on the treated. It is, however, possible to estimate the effect of treatment on the treated up to a certain time point. We propose an estimator to estimate this effect and show that it is possible to test for an average treatment effect.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 844

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
treatment effects
dynamic treatment assignment
program evaluation
method of matching

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Fredriksson, Peter
Johansson, Per
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2003

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Fredriksson, Peter
  • Johansson, Per
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2003

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