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marginal treatment effect: a standalone construct

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Causal inference

the effect of treatment for people at a given margin of indifference to taking it, from which average, treated and local effects can be built.

In causal inference, marginal treatment effect refers to the effect of treatment for people at a given margin of indifference to taking it, from which average, treated and local effects can be built. This meaning comes from Heckman (2005) in Econometrica.[1]

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References

Heckman, J. J., & Vytlacil, E. (2005). Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation1. Econometrica, 73(3), 669-738. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00594.x

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