Convex Treatment Response and Treatment Selection

Stefan Boes

No 1001, SOI - Working Papers from Socioeconomic Institute - University of Zurich

Abstract: This paper analyzes the identifying power of weak convexity assumptions in treatment effect models with endogenous selection. The counterfactual distributions are constrained either in terms of the response function, or conditional on the realized treatment, and sharp bounds on the potential outcome distributions are derived. The methods are applied to bound the effect of education on smoking.

Keywords: nonparametric bounds; causality; endogeneity; instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C30 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2010-01
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