Stratifying on Treatment Status
Econometrics
2025-04-28 v3
Abstract
We study the estimation of treatment effects using samples stratified by treatment status. Standard estimators of the average treatment effect and the local average treatment effect are inconsistent in this setting. We propose consistent estimators and characterize their asymptotic distributions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.04700,
title = {Stratifying on Treatment Status},
author = {Jinyong Hahn and John Ham and Geert Ridder and Shuyang Sheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04700},
year = {2025}
}