29
AUG
2016
16:00
- 17:00
IWH Research Seminar
Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences With an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery
Who
Martin Huber, PhD
(Universität Freiburg, Schweiz)
Where
IWH conference room
This paper proposes a difference-in-differences approach for disentangling a total treatment effect on some outcome into a direct impact as well as an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable – or mediator – within strata defined upon how the mediator reacts to the treatment.