Julian Martinez-Iriarte, Yixiao Sun
arXiv 29 Oct 2020 · Econometrics · publishedJournal of Econometrics (2024) · 3 citations (OpenAlex)
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This paper studies the identification and estimation of policy effects when treatment status is binary and endogenous. We introduce a new class of marginal treatment effects (MTEs) based on the influence function of the functional underlying the policy target. We show that an unconditional policy effect can be represented as a weighted average of the newly defined MTEs over the individuals who are indifferent about their treatment status. We provide conditions for point identification of the unconditional policy effects. When a quantile is the functional of interest, we introduce the UNconditional Instrumental Quantile Estimator (UNIQUE) and establish its consistency and asymptotic distribution. In the empirical application, we estimate the effect of changing college enrollment status, induced by higher tuition subsidy, on the quantiles of the wage distribution.
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| 1 | Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman \ Edward Vytlacil (2010) Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin | 1.000 | 7 | 3 | 100% |
| 2 | Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman \ Edward Vytlacil (2011) Estimating Marginal Returns to Education | 1.000 | 6 | 3 | 100% |
| 3 | Pedro Carneiro \ Sokbae Lee (2009) Estimating Distributions of Potential Outcomes Using Local Instrumental Variables with an Application to Changes in College Enro… | 0.928 | 5 | 3 | 80% |
| 4 | Sergio Firpo, Nicole M. Fortin \ Thomas Lemieux (2009) Unconditional Quantile Regressions | 0.874 | 9 | 2 | 100% |
| 5 | James J. Heckman \ Edward Vytlacil (2001) Local Instrumental Variables | 0.843 | 4 | 4 | 75% |
| 6 | Julian Martinez-Iriarte \ Yixiao Sun (2021) Identification and Estimation of Unconditional Policy Effects of an Endogenous Binary Treatment | 0.843 | 4 | 4 | 75% |
| 7 | Jinyong Hahn \ Geert Ridder (2013) Asymptotic Variance of Semiparametric Estimators with Generated Regressors | 0.843 | 4 | 3 | 75% |
| 8 | James J. Heckman \ Edward Vytlacil (2005) Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation | 0.811 | 4 | 2 | 100% |
| 9 | Julian Martinez-Iriarte, Gabriel Montes-Rojas \ Yixiao Sun (2024) Unconditional Effects of General Policy Interventions self | 0.737 | 3 | 2 | 100% |
| 10 | Whitney K. Newey (1994) The Asymptotic Variance of Semiparametric Estimators | 0.714 | 11 | 2 | 55% |
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| 1 | Sensitivity Analysis in Unconditional Quantile Effects | 0.644 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | Unconditional Effects of General Policy Interventions | 0.511 | 2 | 2 |