Evidence of Treatment Spillovers within Markets
2014 (English)In: Review of Economics and Statistics, ISSN 0034-6535, E-ISSN 1530-9142, Vol. 96, no 5, p. 812-823Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This paper provides a method to infer the presence of treatment spillovers within markets where a fraction of agents is treated. We model individual outcomes as functions of the assigned treatment status and the distribution of assigned treatments in a market. We develop a two-step identification and estimation method, focusing first on the treatment distribution among individuals within markets and then on the treatment distribution across markets. We apply our approach to training programs for unemployed individuals in France using rich administrative data. Our results provide evidence of interactions within local labor markets as potential individual outcomes vary with the proportion of treated individuals.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2014. Vol. 96, no 5, p. 812-823
National Category
Economics and Business
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-241428DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00428ISI: 000346053300003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-241428DiVA, id: diva2:781499
2015-01-162015-01-122017-12-05Bibliographically approved