Concave-monotone treatment response and monotone treatment selection: With an application to the returns to schooling
凹单调处理反应与单调处理选择:教育回报的应用
This paper identifies sharp bounds on the mean treatment response and average treatment effect under the assumptions of both the concave-monotone treatment response (concave-MTR) and the monotone treatment selection (MTS).We use our bounds and the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to estimate mean returns to schooling.Our upper-bound estimates are substantially smaller than (i) estimates using only the concave-MTR assumption of Manski (1997), and (ii) estimates…