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Activity Number:
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563
- Statistical Methods for State Health Policy Evaluation
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 6, 2020 : 3:00 PM to 4:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Health Policy Statistics Section
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Abstract #309445
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Title:
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Partial Identification in Difference-In-Difference Designs When the Parallel Trends Assumption Fails
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Author(s):
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Raiden Hasegawa* and Dylan Small and Luke Keele and Daniel Webster
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Companies:
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Google and University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
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Keywords:
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Difference-in-Difference;
Parallel Trends;
Gun Violence;
Voter ID laws;
Partial Identification;
State Policy Evaluation
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Abstract:
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In the comparative interrupted time series design, the change in outcome in a group exposed to treatment in the periods before and after the exposure is compared to the change in outcome in a control group not exposed to treatment in either period. The standard difference-in-difference estimator for a comparative interrupted time series design is biased when the assumption that the counterfactual trends under control for the comparison groups are parallel fails. Under a weaker set of assumptions than parallel trends, we provide a partial identification strategy that requires constructing two candidate control groups that systematically vary on confounding factors that interact with history. Next, we develop a method to assess the sensitivity of these estimates to departures from the assumptions required for partial identification. Finally, we present a graphical placebo test for the interval estimate produced by our bracketing method. We illustrate this collection of methods with two state-level policy analyses: a study of the repeal of a handgun purchasing law in Missouri and one of the enactment of stricter voter ID laws in Georgia and Indiana.
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Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
