Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76279 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 844
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
treatment effects
dynamic treatment assignment
program evaluation
method of matching
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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