Identification of Treatment Effects Under Conditional Partial Independence

DOI10.3982/ECTA14481MaRDI QIDQ4628435zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Matthew A. Masten, Alexandre Poirier

Publication date 13 March 2019

Published in Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09563

zbMATH Keywords

conditional independencenonparametric identificationpartial identificationrobustnessselection on observablessensitivity analysistreatment effectsunconfoundedness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric robustness (62G35) Nonparametric inference (62G99)

Abstract: Conditional independence of treatment assignment from potential outcomes is a commonly used but nonrefutable assumption. We derive identified sets for various treatment effect parameters under nonparametric deviations from this conditional independence assumption. These deviations are defined via a conditional treatment assignment probability, which makes it straightforward to interpret. Our results can be used to assess the robustness of empirical conclusions obtained under the baseline conditional independence assumption.

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