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Identifying Effects of Multivalued Treatments

Econometrics 2018-05-02 v1 Methodology

Abstract

Multivalued treatment models have typically been studied under restrictive assumptions: ordered choice, and more recently unordered monotonicity. We show how treatment effects can be identified in a more general class of models that allows for multidimensional unobserved heterogeneity. Our results rely on two main assumptions: treatment assignment must be a measurable function of threshold-crossing rules, and enough continuous instruments must be available. We illustrate our approach for several classes of models.

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@article{arxiv.1805.00057,
  title  = {Identifying Effects of Multivalued Treatments},
  author = {Sokbae Lee and Bernard Salanié},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.00057},
  year   = {2018}
}