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Four Parameters of Interest in the Evaluation of Social Programs

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Heckman, J J
Tobias, Justin
Vytlacil, Ed

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This paper reviews four treatment parameters which have become commonly used in the program evaluation literature: the Average Treatment Effect (ATE), the effect of Treatment on the Treated (TT), the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) and the Marginal Treatment Effect (MTE). We derive simply computed closed-form expressions for these treatment parameters in a latent variable framework with Gaussian error terms. We also briefly describe recent work which seeks to go beyond mean effects and estimate the {distributions} associated with various outcome gains.

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Paper provided by Iowa State University, Department of Economics in its series Staff General Research Papers with number 12022.

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Publication status: Published in Southern Economic Journal, 2001, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 210-233.
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