Noncompliance in randomized control trials without exclusion restrictions

Autor:	Sawada, Masayuki
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Economics - General Economics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	This study proposes a method to identify treatment effects without exclusion restrictions in randomized experiments with noncompliance. Exploiting a baseline survey commonly available in randomized experiments, I decompose the intention-to-treat effects conditional on the endogenous treatment status. I then identify these parameters to understand the effects of the assignment and treatment. The key assumption is that a baseline variable maintains rank orders similar to the control outcome. I also reveal that the change-in-changes strategy may work without repeated outcomes. Finally, I propose a new estimator that flexibly incorporates covariates and demonstrate its properties using two experimental studies. Comment: The first version of this paper has been circulated on the author's website, https://masayukisawada.com, as the Job Market paper and the dissertation chapter
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03204 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv