Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34846 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3632
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case of selection on unobservables. We then propose a new minimum biased estimator of the average treatment effect. We assess the finite sample performance of our estimator using simulated data, as well as a timely application examining the causal effect of the School Breakfast Program on childhood obesity. We find our new estimator to be quite advantageous in many situations, even when selection is only on observables.
Subjects: 
Treatment effects
propensity score
bias
unconfoundedness
selection on unobservables
JEL: 
C21
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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