A simple procedure for the evaluation of treatment effects on duration variables

Jaap Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

No 2003:19, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: Often, a treatment and the outcome of interest are characterized by the moment they occur, and these moments are realizations of stochastic processes with dependent unobserved determinants. We develop a simple and intuitive method for inference on the treatment effect. The method can be implemented as a graphical procedure or as a straightforward parameter test in an auxiliary univariate single-spell duration model. The method exploits information on the timing of the treatment relative to the outcome that is discarded in binary treatment analyses.

Keywords: Duration analysis; hazard rate; selectivity bias; treatment effect; unobserved heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C31 C41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2003-08-11
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