SMU SOE Seminar (Mar 28, 2019): Monotonicity Test for Local Average Treatment Effects under Regression Discontinuity

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ABSTRACT Researchers are often interested in the relationship between treatment eﬀects and observed individual heterogeneity. This paper proposes the ﬁrst nonparametric monotonicity test under the popular regression discontinuity framework. The proposed test examines whether the average treatment eﬀect or the local average treatment eﬀect has a monotonic relationship with some of the observed individual characteristics. We show consistency and asymptotic uniform size control of the proposed test. We apply the test to study the heterogeneous eﬀect of attending a more selective high school with respect to peer quality. Keywords: Average treatment eﬀect, Local average treatment eﬀect, Regression discontinuity, Regression monotonicity Click here to view the paper. Click here to view the CV.
		PRESENTER Yu-Chin Hsu Academia Sinica
		RESEARCH FIELDS Econometric Theory
		DATE: 28 March 2019 (Thursday)
		TIME: 4pm - 5.30pm
		VENUE: Meeting Room 5.1, Level 5 School of Economics Singapore Management University 90 Stamford Road Singapore 178903