TE: Functions for estimation of treatment effects

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Functions for estimation of treatment effects

Description

This class of functions estimates the average treatment effect (ATE), the ATE of the tretated (ATET), the local average treatment effects (LATE) and the LATE of the tretated (LATET). The estimation methods rely on immunized / orthogonal moment conditions which guarantee valid post-selection inference in a high-dimensional setting. Further details can be found in Belloni et al. (2014).

Usage

rlassoATE(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
rlassoATE(x, d, y, bootstrap = "none", nRep = 500, ...)

## S3 method for class 'formula'
rlassoATE(formula, data, bootstrap = "none", nRep = 500, ...)

rlassoATET(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
rlassoATET(x, d, y, bootstrap = "none", nRep = 500, ...)

## S3 method for class 'formula'
rlassoATET(formula, data, bootstrap = "none", nRep = 500, ...)

rlassoLATE(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
rlassoLATE(
  x,
  d,
  y,
  z,
  bootstrap = "none",
  nRep = 500,
  post = TRUE,
  intercept = TRUE,
  always_takers = TRUE,
  never_takers = TRUE,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'formula'
rlassoLATE(
  formula,
  data,
  bootstrap = "none",
  nRep = 500,
  post = TRUE,
  intercept = TRUE,
  always_takers = TRUE,
  never_takers = TRUE,
  ...
)

rlassoLATET(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
rlassoLATET(
  x,
  d,
  y,
  z,
  bootstrap = "none",
  nRep = 500,
  post = TRUE,
  intercept = TRUE,
  always_takers = TRUE,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'formula'
rlassoLATET(
  formula,
  data,
  bootstrap = "none",
  nRep = 500,
  post = TRUE,
  intercept = TRUE,
  always_takers = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

x	exogenous variables
...	arguments passed, e.g. intercept and post
d	treatment variable (binary)
y	outcome variable / dependent variable
bootstrap	boostrap method which should be employed: 'none', 'Bayes', 'normal', 'wild'
nRep	number of replications for the bootstrap
formula	An object of class Formula of the form " y ~ x + d | x" with y the outcome variable, d treatment variable, and x exogenous variables.
data	An optional data frame, list or environment (or object coercible by as.data.frame to a data frame) containing the variables in the model. If not found in data, the variables are taken from environment(formula), typically the environment from which rlassoATE is called.
z	instrumental variables (binary)
post	logical. If TRUE, post-lasso estimation is conducted.
intercept	logical. If TRUE, intercept is included which is not
always_takers	option to adapt to cases with (default) and without always-takers. If FALSE, the estimator is adapted to a setting without always-takers.
never_takers	option to adapt to cases with (default) and without never-takers. If FALSE, the estimator is adapted to a setting without never-takers.

Details

Details can be found in Belloni et al. (2014).

Value

Functions return an object of class rlassoTE with estimated effects, standard errors and individual effects in the form of a list.

References

A. Belloni, V. Chernozhukov, I. Fernandez-Val, and C. Hansen (2014). Program evaluation with high-dimensional data. Working Paper.

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