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LOCATION:Elinor Ostrom Hall,DIW Berlin,Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse 58,10117 Berlin
SUMMARY:The Bias in Pseudo-Event Studies
DESCRIPTION:12:30-13:30 // Pseudo-event studies promise to overcome the limited availability of panel data by estimating event-study effects from widely available cross-sectional data. Originally developed and increasingly used for child penalty estimation, the approach has been proposed for broader applications. We show that pseudo-event study estimates are systematically biased for both pre-trends and treatment effects and analytically characterize this bias. The similarity to panel estimates in child penalty applications reflects a special case and need not generalize. Pseudo-pre-trends are mechanically concentrated around zero irrespective of actual pre-trends and therefore uninformative about the identifying assumptions. Simulations and an application using the German Socio-Economic Panel confirm the theoretical predictions.
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URL:https://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.1022154.en/events/the_bias_in_pseudo-event_studies.html
ORGANIZER;CN=Alexander Grawe:mailto:agrawe@diw.de
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