Control Function Approach for Partly Ordered Endogenous Treatments: Military Rank Premium in Wage
提出一种控制函数方法，用于估计部分有序处理变量（如军衔）相对于对照处理（如非退伍军人）的因果效应，并利用威斯康星纵向研究数据发现军官对工资有较大正向影响，而士兵影响很小或没有。
Abstract In treatment effect analysis, there are many cases where the treatment of interest is ordered (e.g. general‐education years or medicine doses) and the control treatment is not zero, but a different type of treatment (a vocational training or a surgery). We develop an approach to find effects of partly ordered treatments, while correcting for possible treatment endogeneity with nearly parametric control functions. We use this control function approach, along with its supplementary version, to estimate effects of military ranks (ordered treatments) on wage relative to non‐veteran status (control treatment) with the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study data. In our empirical analysis, the military rank effects differ much: officer has large positive effects, but enlisted ranks have small or no effects.