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JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
卷 197, 期 1, 页码 65-75出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2016.01.011
关键词
Average treatment effects; Asymptotic distribution; LASSO method
Hsiao, Ching and Wan (2012) propose a novel method to estimate the average treatment effect using panel data. In this paper, we accomplish the following: (i)We relax some of the distributional assumptions made in HCW and show that the HCW method works for a much wider range of data generating processes; (ii) We derive the asymptotic distribution of HCW's average treatment effect estimator which facilitates inference; (iii) When there exists a large number of control units, we propose using the LASSO method to select control units. We show that the LASSO method is computationally more efficient compared to conventional model selection criteria. Moreover, the LASSO method leads to more accurate out-of-sample prediction results than many commonly adopted approaches such as BIC, AIC, AICC and the leave-many out cross validation methods (Du and Zhang, 2015). (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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