Five Minute Summary: Treatment Effects in Interactive Fixed Effects Models

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Sonia Karami and I just posted a new version of our paper Treatment Effects in Interactive Fixed Effects Models.

Connection between Difference in Differences and Interactive Fixed Effects ModelsPermalink

A lot of my research has involved identifying treatment effect parameters in a difference in differences (DID) framework. For DID, the main identifying assumption is the parallel trends assumption:

Parallel Trends Assumption E[ΔYt(0)|D=1]=E[ΔYt(0)|D=0]

Parallel trends assumptions are very closely related to the following model for untreated potential outcomes:

Yit(0)=θt+ηi+Uit where $\theta_t$ is a time fixed effect, $\eta_i$ is an individual fixed effect, and $U_{it}$ are idiosyncratic time varying unobservables.

Identification ChallengesPermalink

Our IdeaPermalink

The Rest of the Paper…Permalink

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