Rebuttal of "On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models"
Econometrics
2019-07-24 v1
Abstract
In their IZA Discussion Paper 10247, Johansson and Lee claim that the main result (Proposition 3) in Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) does not hold. We show that their claim is incorrect. At a certain point within their line of reasoning, they make a rather basic error while transforming one random variable into another random variable, and this leads them to draw incorrect conclusions. As a result, their paper can be discarded.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.09886,
title = {Rebuttal of "On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models"},
author = {Jaap H. Abbring and Gerard J. van den Berg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09886},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
10 pages, IZA Discussion Paper 10248 with new appendix discussing files currently (July 20, 2019) posted on M.J. Lee's web site