The Estimation of Causal Effects by Difference-in-Difference Methods
Michael Lechner
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Michael Lechner
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The Estimation of Causal Effects by Difference-in-Difference Methods presents a brief overview of the literature on the difference-in-difference estimation strategy and discusses major issues mainly using a treatment effect perspective that allows more general considerations than the classical regression formulation that still dominates the applied work.
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The Estimation of Causal Effects by Difference-in-Difference Methods presents a brief overview of the literature on the difference-in-difference estimation strategy and discusses major issues mainly using a treatment effect perspective that allows more general considerations than the classical regression formulation that still dominates the applied work.
Key concepts: Difference in differences, Significant difference, Estimation, Mean difference, Econometrics, Perspective (graphical), Statistics, Mathematics