Covariance Regression Models for Studying Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Speaker: Deirdre Bloome, Harvard University Abstract: Causal analyses typically focus on average treatment effects. Yet for substantive research on topics like inequality, interest extends to treatments’ distributional consequences. When individuals differ in their responses to treatment, three types of inequality may result. Treatment may shape inequalities between subgroups defined by pretreatment covariates, it may induce...