Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects

Jean-Pierre Florens, James J. Heckman, Costas Meghir () and Edward Vytlacil ()

No 14002, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We use the control function approach to identify the average treatment effect and the effect of treatment on the treated in models with a continuous endogenous regressor whose impact is heterogeneous. We assume a stochastic polynomial restriction on the form of the heterogeneity but, unlike alternative nonparametric control function approaches, our approach does not require large support assumptions.

JEL-codes: C21 C31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-05
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