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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RELATED PRIOR WORK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2006

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
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Michigan State University Address correspondence to Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1038, USA; e-mail: [email protected]
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In Wooldridge (2005), I posed a problem whose solution involved showing that the so-called ignorability of treatment assumption, commonly used in the treatment effects literature, was necessarily violated. In particular, in a setting with multiple treatment effects and without distributional or functional form assumptions, I assumed that treatment was randomized with respect to the counterfactual outcomes but not with respect to the covariates. I applied the law of iterated expectations to provide a simple proof that ignorability (given the covariates) necessarily fails.

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Econometric Theory , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 1177 - 1178
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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