Design-based analysis in Difference-In-Differences settings with staggered adoption
Susan Athey and
Guido Imbens
Journal of Econometrics, 2022, vol. 226, issue 1, 62-79
Abstract:
In this paper we study estimation of and inference for average treatment effects in a setting with panel data. We focus on the staggered adoption setting where units, e.g, individuals, firms, or states, adopt the policy or treatment of interest at a particular point in time, and then remain exposed to this treatment at all times afterwards. We take a design perspective where we investigate the properties of estimators and procedures given assumptions on the assignment process. We show that under random assignment of the adoption date the standard Difference-In-Differences (DID) estimator is an unbiased estimator of a particular weighted average causal effect. We characterize the exact finite sample properties of this estimand, and show that the standard variance estimator is conservative.
Keywords: Staggered adoption design; Difference-In-Differences; Fixed effects; Randomization distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.10.012
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