Estimation, Learning and Parameters of Interest in a Multiple Outcome Selection Model

Justin Tobias ()

Econometric Reviews, 2006, vol. 25, issue 1, 1-40

Abstract: We describe estimation, learning, and prediction in a treatment-response model with two outcomes. The introduction of potential outcomes in this model introduces four cross-regime correlation parameters that are not contained in the likelihood for the observed data and thus are not identified. Despite this inescapable identification problem, we build upon the results of Koop and Poirier (1997) to describe how learning takes place about the four nonidentified correlations through the imposed positive definiteness of the covariance matrix. We then derive bivariate distributions associated with commonly estimated “treatment parameters” (including the Average Treatment Effect and effect of Treatment on the Treated), and use the learning that takes place about the nonidentified correlations to calculate these densities. We illustrate our points in several generated data experiments and apply our methods to estimate the joint impact of child labor on achievement scores in language and mathematics.

Keywords: Bayesian econometrics; Treatment effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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