Calendrier du 18 avril 2024
brown bag Travail et Économie Publique
Du 18/04/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 74014 Paris, salle R1-09
OYON LERGA Unai (PSE)
Bounding Treatment Effect Heterogeneity with an Application to Labor Economics
Uncovering the nature and the magnitude of the heterogeneity in the impact of a public policy is central for practitioners. Using an interactive fixed effects (IFE) model in the context of panel data to accommodate non-parallel evolutions of untreated potential outcomes across groups, I aim to provide two measures of the aforesaid heterogeneity. First and foremost, a bound of the variance of the treatment effects, and, under stronger assumptions, a characterization of the full distribution of treatment effects on the treated (QTT). I then review the available results in the literature using deconvolutions and instrumental variables in quantile regressions to estimate QTTs, and sketch some potential applications in the field of Labor Economics.