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Multiple Testing and the Distributional Effects of Accountability Incentives in Education

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Lehrer, Steven F. Pohl, R. Vincent Song, Kyungchul
Copyright Year	2018
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Economic theory that underlies many empirical microeconomic applications predicts that treatment responses depend on individuals’ characteristics and location on the outcome distribution. Using data from a large-scale Pakistani school report card experiment, we consider tests for treatment effect heterogeneity that make corrections for multiple testing to avoid an overestimation of positive treatment effects. These tests uncover evidence of policy-relevant heterogeneous effects from information provision on child test scores. Further, our analysis reinforces the importance of preventing the inflation of false positive conclusions since over 65% of the estimated statistically significant quantile treatment effects become insignificant once these corrections are applied.
Related Links	https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/195374/1/1663446083.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3266793
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3266793
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2018-09-24
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Industrial Relations Student Performance Quantile Treatment Effects Multiple Testing Bootstrap Tests
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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