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Identifying Treatment Effects Under Data Combination

Econometrica 2014 82(2), 811-822
We consider the identification of counterfactual distributions and treatment effects when the outcome variables and conditioning covariates are observed in separate datasets. Under the standard selection on observables assumption, the counterfactual distributions and treatment effect parameters are no longer point identified. However, applying the classical monotone re-arrangement inequality, we derive sharp bounds on the counterfactual distributions and policy parameters of interest.