Heckman James J, Pinto Rodrigo
Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
Department of Economics, University of California Los Angeles, 8385 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Econometrica. 2018 Jan;86(1):35. doi: 10.3982/ECTA13777.
This paper defines and analyzes a new monotonicity condition for the identification of counterfactuals and treatment effects in unordered discrete choice models with multiple treatments, heterogenous agents and discrete-valued instruments. implies and is implied by additive separability of choice of treatment equations in terms of observed and unobserved variables. These results follow from properties of binary matrices developed in this paper. We investigate conditions under which unordered monotonicity arises as a consequence of choice behavior. We characterize IV estimators of counterfactuals as solutions to discrete mixture problems.
本文定义并分析了一种新的单调性条件,用于识别具有多种治疗方法、异质主体和离散值工具变量的无序离散选择模型中的反事实和治疗效果。这意味着治疗选择方程在观测变量和未观测变量方面的加性可分性,并且被其蕴含。这些结果源于本文所发展的二元矩阵的性质。我们研究无序单调性作为选择行为结果出现的条件。我们将反事实的工具变量估计量刻画为离散混合问题的解。