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In this chapter, we review policy evaluation and Heckman and Vytlacil’s [2005, 2007a] (HV) strategy for linking marginal treatment effects to other average treatment effects including policy-relevant treatment effects. Recent innovations in the treatment effects literature including dynamic and general equilibrium considerations are mentioned briefly but in-depth study of these matters is not pursued. HV’s marginal treatment effects strategy is applied to the regulated report precision setting introduced in chapter 2, discussed in chapter 10, and continued in the next chapter. This analysis highlights the relative importance of probability distribution assignment to unobservables and quality of instruments.
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Schroeder, D.A. (2010). Marginal treatment effects. In: Accounting and Causal Effects. Springer Series in Accounting Scholarship, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7225-5_11
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