Inference under Staggered Adoption: Case Study of the Affordable Care Act
交错实施下的推断:以《平价医疗法案》为例
Panel data consists of a collection of $N$ units that are observed over $T$ units of time. A policy or treatment is subject to staggered adoption if different units take on treatment at different times and remains treated (or never at all). Assessing the effectiveness of such a policy requires estimating the treatment effect, corresponding to the difference between outcomes for treated versus untreated units. We develop inference procedures that build upon a computationally…