Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20076 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 831
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Often, the moment of a treatment and the moment at which the outcome of interest occurs are realizations of stochastic processes with dependent unobserved determinants. Notably, both treatment and outcome are characterized by the moment they occur. In this paper, we compare different methods of inference of the treatment effect. We argue that the timing of the treatment relative to the outcome conveys useful information on the treatment effect, which is discarded in binary treatment frameworks.
Subjects: 
program evaluation
treatment effects
timing-of-events method
bivariate duration analysis
selection bias
JEL: 
C41
C31
C14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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