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July 2012
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Inference in difference-in-differences approaches
Type: Presentations
Keywords: Programme Evaluation

In this presentation we review the significant problems for inference (as captured in the estimated standard error) that can arise in the popular "difference-in-difference" designs. These arise especially where data have a multi-level structure, and there is serial correlation in the treatment or policy variation, and in the group-level shocks. We discuss best-practice in dealing with such problems

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