EconBase
← All papers

Doubly Robust Uniform Confidence Bands for Group-Time Conditional Average Treatment Effects in Difference-in-Differences

Shunsuke Imai, Lei Qin, Takahide Yanagi

arXiv 3 May 2023 · Econometrics · publishedJournal of Business and Economic Statistics (2025)

arXiv:2305.02185 · PDF · DOI · OpenAlex · Extracted main text

Abstract

We consider a panel data analysis to examine the heterogeneity in treatment effects with respect to groups, periods, and a pre-treatment covariate of interest in the staggered difference-in-differences setting of Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021). Under standard identification conditions, a doubly robust estimand conditional on the covariate identifies the group-time conditional average treatment effect given the covariate. Focusing on the case of a continuous covariate, we propose a three-step estimation procedure based on nonparametric local polynomial regressions and parametric estimation methods. Using uniformly valid distributional approximation results for empirical processes and weighted/multiplier bootstrapping, we develop doubly robust inference methods to construct uniform confidence bands for the group-time conditional average treatment effect function and a variety of useful summary parameters. The accompanying R package didhetero allows for easy implementation of our methods.

Citation extraction

30
references
117
in-text mentions
30
distinct cited
1
self-citations
12,987
main-text words

appendix boundary found by appendix_command · 32% of the source is main text. Read the extracted text to check this.

Most heavily cited references

The works this paper leans on most, across its whole bibliography — not restricted to papers in our corpus. Ranked by composite intensity, which combines how often a work is mentioned, how many sections mention it, and how much of that falls in the main text rather than the appendix.

ReferenceIntensityMentionsSectionsMain text
1Lee, S., Okui, R., and Whang, Y.J (2017) Doubly robust uniform confidence band for the conditional average treatment effect function0.92314379%
2Chernozhukov, V., Chetverikov, D., and Kato, K (2014) a0.8947371%
3Fan, Q., Hsu, Y.C., Lieli, R.P., and Zhang, Y (2022) Estimation of conditional average treatment effects with high-dimensional data0.874102100%
4Mammen, E (1993) Bootstrap and wild bootstrap for high dimensional linear models0.8746367%
5Callaway, B. and Sant'Anna, P.H (2021) Difference-in-differences with multiple time periods0.838341159%
6Fan, J. and Gijbels, I (1996) Local polynomial modelling and its applications0.64422100%
7Chernozhukov, V., Chetverikov, D., and Kato, K (2014) b0.58510420%
8Cattaneo, M.D., Chandak, R., Jansson, M., and Ma, X (2024) Boundary adaptive local polynomial conditional density estimators0.58531100%
9Piterbarg, V.I (1996) Asymptotic methods in the theory of Gaussian processes and fields0.5113233%
10Ghosal, S., Sen, A., and van der Vaart, A.W (2000) Testing monotonicity of regression0.5112250%

Showing the top 10 of 30 scored citations.

Cited by, within the corpus

arXiv econ.EM papers that cite this one, ranked by how heavily they lean on it.

Citing paperIntensityMentionsSections
1A Fixed-Effects Causal Forest for Staggered Adoption, with an Application to Medicaid Expansion1.00054
2Accuracy of Uniform Inference on Fine Grid Points0.64422
3On Extrapolation of Treatment Effects in Multiple-Cutoff Regression Discontinuity Designs0.51132
4Uniform Confidence Bands for Infinite-Dimensional Partially Identified Parameters0.40511
52606.247850.40511