Labor Seminars Amsterdam

Speaker(s)
Rusty Tchernis (Georgia State University, United States)
Date
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Location
Amsterdam

Participation in social programs is often misreported in survey data, complicating the estimation of the e ffects of those programs. In this paper we propose a model to estimate treatment eff ect under endogenous participation and endogenous misreporting. We show that failure to account for endogenous misreporting can result in the estimates of the treatment eff ect having opposite sign from the true eff ect. We present an expression for the asymptotic bias of both OLS and IV estimators and discuss the conditions under which sign reversal may occur. We provide a method of eliminating this bias when researchers have access to information related to both participation and misreporting. We establish the consistency and asymptotic normality of our estimator and present its small sample performance through Monte Carlo simulations. Joint with Pierre Nguimkeuy and Augustine Denteh.