Making Event Study Plots Honest: A Functional Data Approach to Causal Inference
让事件研究图支持诚实推断:因果分析的函数型数据方法
Event study plots are the centerpiece of Difference-in-Differences (DiD) analysis, but current plotting methods cannot provide honest causal inference when the parallel trends and/or no-anticipation assumptions fail. We introduce a novel functional data approach to DiD that directly enables honest causal inference via event study plots. Our DiD estimator converges to a Gaussian process in the Banach space of continuous functions, enabling powerful simultaneous confidence…