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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2019
Abstract
Copyright © 2019 The Authors. This paper considers identification and estimation of the Quantile Treatment Effect on the Treated (QTT) under a straightforward distributional extension of the most commonly invoked Mean Difference in Differences Assumption used for identifying the Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT). Identification of the QTT is more complicated than the ATT though because it depends on the unknown dependence (or copula) between the change in untreated potential outcomes and the initial level of untreated potential outcomes for the treated group. To address this issue, we introduce a new Copula Stability Assumption that says that the missing dependence is constant over time. Under this assumption and when panel data is available, the missing dependence can be recovered, and the QTT is identified. We use our method to estimate the effect of increasing the minimum wage on quantiles of local labor markets' unemployment rates and find significant heterogeneity.
Relational Format
journal article
Recommended Citation
Callaway, B., & Li, T. (2019). Quantile treatment effects in difference in differences models with panel data. Quantitative Economics, 10(4), 1579–1618. https://doi.org/10.3982/QE935
DOI
10.3982/QE935
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