Semiparametric Difference-in-Differences Estimators
2004/12/24 by Alberto Abadie · 2,289 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Advanced Causal Inference Techniques #Average treatment effect #Control variable #Covariate #Difference in differences #Econometrics #Economics #Estimation #Estimator #Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics #Mathematics #Medicine #Microeconomics #Outcome (game theory) #Spatial and Panel Data Analysis #Statistics #Treatment and control groups #Treatment effect #Variable (mathematics)
paper · doi:10.1111/0034-6527.00321
published in The Review of Economic Studies 72(1), 1-19 (Oxford University Press)
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