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Marco Percoco: Bocconi University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Regional Perspectives on Policy Evaluation, 2014, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses the fundamentals of counterfactual policy evaluation. It presents the notions of “counterfactual”, confounding factors and causal inference through examples and provides a discussion of multivariate regression as the baseline policy evaluation model. Average Treatment Effect and Average Treatment on the Treated parameters are also presented, along with the identification of heterogeneous impact.

Keywords: Counterfactual; Confounding factors; Causal inference; Regression; Average treatment effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09519-6_1

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