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Estimating causal effects: considering three alternatives to difference-in-differences estimation

Difference-in-differences (DiD) estimators provide unbiased treatment effect estimates when, in the absence of treatment, the average outcomes for the treated and control groups would have followed parallel trends over time. This assumption is implausible in many settings. An alternative assumption...

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Published in:Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodol
Main Authors: O’Neill, Stephen, Kreif, Noémi, Grieve, Richard, Sutton, Matthew, Sekhon, Jasjeet S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer US 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4869762/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27340369
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10742-016-0146-8
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