Please Call Again: Correcting Non-Response Bias in Treatment Effect Models

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Marc Gurgand and Thomas Le Barbanchon

No 6751, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit" and of the bounding approach of Lee (2009). As a substitute for the instrument needed in sample selectivity correction models, we use information on the number of attempts that were made to obtain response to the survey from each individual who responded. We obtain set identification, but if the number of attempts to reach each individual is high enough, we can come closer to point identification. We apply our sample selection correction in the context of a job-search experiment with low and unbalanced response rates.

Keywords: survey non response; sample selectivity; treatment effect model; randomized controlled trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 C93 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2012-07
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Published - published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (5), 1070 - 1080

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