Dynamically assigned treatments: duration models, binary treatment models, and panel data models

Jaap H. Abbring () and Gerard J. van den Berg

No 2002:20, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation

Abstract: Often, the moment of a treatment and the moment at which the outcome of interest occurs are realizations of stochastic processes with dependent unobserved determinants. Notably, both treatment and outcome are characterized by the moment they occur. We compare different methods of inference of the treatment effect, and we argue that the timing of the treatment relative to the outcome conveys useful information on the treatment effect, which is discarded in binary treatment frameworks

Keywords: Program evaluation; treatment effects; bivariate duration analysis; selection bias; hazard rate; unobserved heterogeneity; fixed effects; random effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C31 C41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2002-08-30
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Published in Empirical Economics , 2004, pages 5-20.

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