Estimating Treatment Effects from Spatial Policy Experiments: An Application to Ugandan Microfinance
空间政策实验中的处理效应估计:乌干达小额信贷应用
This paper demonstrates a method for estimating treatment effects in spatial tests, utilizing a second control group to measure unexplained spatial phenomena. The technique is implemented on two innovations in Ugandan microfinance, and we measure the ways in which concurrent shocks such as an Ebola outbreak and a contentious presidential election altered outcomes differentially across regions. By correcting for this spatial heterogeneity, we measure the impact of the…