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The triple difference estimator
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Summary: Triple difference has become a widely used estimator in empirical work. A close reading of articles in top economics journals reveals that the use of the estimator to a large extent rests on intuition. The identifying assumptions are neither formally derived nor generally agreed on. We give a complete presentation of the triple difference estimator, and show that even though the estimator can be computed as the difference between two difference-in-differences estimators, it does not require two parallel trend assumptions to have a causal interpretation. The reason is that the difference between two biased difference-in-differences estimators will be unbiased as long as the bias is the same in both estimators. This requires only one parallel trend assumption to hold.
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- Authors
- Olden, A., & Møen, J.
- Venue
- The Econometrics Journal
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2022-03-09
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 531-553
- ISSN
- 1368-4221 (ISSN-L)
- 1368-423X
- OpenAlex
- W3020461982
- Cited by
- 432
- References
- 35
- FWCI
- 18.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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