MULTIPLE TESTING AND HETEROGENEOUS TREATMENT EFFECTS: RE-EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF PROGRESA ON SCHOOL ENROLLMENT (replication data)

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The effect of a program or treatment may vary according to observed characteristics. In such a setting, it may not only be of interest to determine whether the program or treatment has an effect on some sub-population defined by these observed characteristics, but also to determine for which sub-populations, if any, there is an effect. This paper treats this problem as a multiple testing problem in which each null hypothesis in the family of null hypotheses specifies whether the program has an effect on the outcome of interest for a particular sub-population. We develop our methodology in the context of PROGRESA, a large-scale poverty-reduction program in Mexico. In our application, the outcome of interest is the school enrollment rate and the sub-populations are defined by gender and highest grade completed. Under weak assumptions, the testing procedure we construct controls the familywise error rate-the probability of even one false rejection-in finite samples. Similar to earlier studies, we find that the program has a significant effect on the school enrollment rate, but only for a much smaller number of sub-populations when compared to results that do not adjust for multiple testing.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15456/jae.2022321.0714168468
Metadata Access https://www.da-ra.de/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:oai.da-ra.de:775656
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Creator Lee, Soohyung; Shaikh, Azeem M.
Publisher ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Publication Year 2014
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY); Download
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Contact ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
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Language English
Resource Type Collection
Discipline Economics