Extremal quantile treatment effects

This paper establishes an asymptotic theory and inference method for quantile treatment effect estimators when the quantile index is close to or equal to zero. Such quantile treatment effects are of interest in many applications, such as the effect of maternal smoking on an infant’s adverse birth ou...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: ZHANG, Yichong
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اللغة:English
منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2207
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3206/viewcontent/MLIP1714_0043.pdf
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الملخص:This paper establishes an asymptotic theory and inference method for quantile treatment effect estimators when the quantile index is close to or equal to zero. Such quantile treatment effects are of interest in many applications, such as the effect of maternal smoking on an infant’s adverse birth outcomes. When the quantile index is close to zero, the sparsity of data jeopardizes conventional asymptotic theory and bootstrap inference. When the quantile index is zero, there are no existing inference methods directly applicable in the treatment effect context. This paper addresses both of these issues by proposing new inference methods that are shown to be asymptotically valid as well as having adequate finite sample properties.