INESAD Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza

Outliers in semi-parametric Estimation of Treatment Effects

13 December, 2017 Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros, Working Papers, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Luis Castro, Luis Castro, Working Papers Comments Off on Outliers in semi-parametric Estimation of Treatment Effects

By: Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza and Luis Castro Peñarrieta October 2017 Abstract Average treatment effects estimands can present significant bias under the presence of outliers. Moreover, outliers can be particularly hard to detect, creating bias and inconsistency in the semi-parametric ATE estimads. In this paper, we use Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate …