Methods Based on Selection on Unobservables

Giovanni Cerulli

Chapter Chapter 3 in Econometric Evaluation of Socio-Economic Programs, 2022, pp 153-216 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter covers econometric methods for estimating ATEs under “selection on unobservables,” also known in the literature as “hidden bias.” When nonobservable factors significantly drive the nonrandom assignment to treatment, recovering consistent estimations of ATEs relying only on observables (basically, the vector of covariates x) is no longer possible. As a consequence, econometric methods based on the conditional independence assumption (CIA) reviewed in Chap. 2 are no longer appropriate for estimating the actual program effect on target variables.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-65945-8_3

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