Partial identification of the distribution of treatment effects with an application to the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Frandsen, Brigham R.; Lefgren, Lars J.
• 署名单位: Brigham Young University
• 刊物名称: QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1759-7323
• DOI: 10.3982/QE1273
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 143-171
• 关键词: Program evaluation; treatment effects; distributional effects; charter schools

摘要

We bound the distribution of treatment effects under plausible and testable assumptions on the joint distribution of potential outcomes, namely that potential outcomes are mutually stochastically increasing. We show how to test the empirical restrictions implied by those assumptions. The resulting bounds substantially sharpen bounds based on classical inequalities. We apply our method to estimate bounds on the distribution of effects of attending a Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) charter school on student achievement, and find that a substantial majority of students' math achievement benefited from attendance, especially those who would have fared poorly in a traditional classroom.