State policy heterogeneity analyses: considerations and proposals
州级政策异质性分析:问题辨析与方法建议
State-level policy studies often conduct heterogeneity analyses that quantify how treatment effects vary across state characteristics. These analyses may be used to inform state-specific policy decisions, or to infer how the effect of a policy changes in combination with other state characteristics. However, in state-level settings with varied contexts and policy landscapes, multiple versions of similar policies, and differential policy implementation, the causal quantities…