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治疗分类错误的双重差分法

Difference-in-Differences with a Misclassified Treatment

Akanksha Negi, Digvijay Singh Negi

摘要:

本文研究了当将个体分为治疗组和对照组的变量(治疗状态,D)被内生性错误分类时,在差异中差异(DID)设计中对治疗组(ATT)的平均处理效应的识别和估计。我们发现,D中的错误分类阻碍了ATT的一致估计,因为1)它限制了我们从被错误分类为被治疗的患者中识别真正被治疗的患者,2)反事实趋势中的差异错误分类可能导致平行趋势与D相违背,即使它们与真实但未观察到的D* 相一致。我们提出了一个解决方案,以纠正内源性单侧误分类的背景下,参数DID回归,允许相当大的异质性,处理效应,并建立其渐近性能面板和重复的横截面设置。此外,我们说明了使用它来估计在印度的大规模的实物食品转移计划,这是已知的,遭受大的目标误差的保险影响的方法。

英文摘要:

This paper studies identification and estimation of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) in difference-in-difference (DID) designs when the variable that classifies individuals into treatment and control groups (treatment status, D) is endogenously misclassified. We show that misclassification in D hampers consistent estimation of ATT because 1) it restricts us from identifying the truly treated from those misclassified as being treated and 2) differential misclassification in counterfactual trends may result in parallel trends being violated with D even when they hold with the true but unobserved D*. We propose a solution to correct for endogenous one-sided misclassification in the context of a parametric DID regression which allows for considerable heterogeneity in treatment effects and establish its asymptotic properties in panel and repeated cross section settings. Furthermore, we illustrate the method by using it to estimate the insurance impact of a large-scale in-kind food transfer program in India which is known to suffer from large targeting errors.

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