29
AUG 2016

16:00 - 17:00
IWH Research Seminar

Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences With an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery

This paper proposes a difference-in-differences approach for disentangling a total treatment effect on some outcome into a direct impact as well as an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable – or mediator – within strata defined upon how the mediator reacts to the treatment.

Who
Martin Huber, PhD  (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Where
IWH conference room
Martin Huber, PhD

Personal details

Professor Martin Huber, PhD holds the Chair of Applied Econometrics - Evaluation of Public Policies at University of Fribourg. His research interests are Policy/treatment effect evaluation in labor, health, and education economics, semi- and nonparametric microeconometric methods for causal inference, machine learning.

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