{"id":13715,"date":"2020-09-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2020-09-12T14:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T19:22:37","slug":"metrics-monday-new-version-of-the-paper-of-how-estimating-treatment-effects-with-the-front-door-criterion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/13715","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Metrics Monday: New Version of &#8220;The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects with the Front-Door Criterion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am happy to share a leaner, meaner version of my paper with Jeff Bloem and Noah Wexler titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BellemareBloemWexlerFDCSeptember2020.pdf\">The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects with the Front-Door Criterion<\/a>,&#8221; which we finished last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the abstract:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We present the first application of Pearl&#8217;s (1995) front-door criterion to observational data wherein the required point-identification assumptions plausibly hold. For identification, the front-door criterion exploits exogenous mediator variables on the causal path. We estimate the effect of authorizing a shared Uber or Lyft ride on tipping by exploiting the plausibly exogenous variation in whether one actually shares a ride with a stranger conditional on authorizing sharing, on fare level, and on time-and-place fixed effects. We find that most of the observed negative effect on tipping is driven by selection. We then explore the consequences of violating the identification assumptions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This version has benefited from comments from many people who were very generous with their time. We are grateful for any and all additional comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to share a leaner, meaner version of my paper with Jeff Bloem and Noah Wexler titled &#8220;The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/13715\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Metrics Monday: New Version of &#8220;The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects with the Front-Door Criterion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-3zd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13717,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions\/13717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}