Generalizing the Results from Social Experiments: Theory and Evidence from India
推导了利用一个情境的实验证据来估计另一个情境平均处理效应的边界，并用印度补习教育实验数据证明该方法能跨地点恢复处理效应，而基准方法不能。
How informative are treatment effects estimated in one region or time period for another region or time? In this article, I derive bounds on the average treatment effect in a context of interest using experimental evidence from another context. The bounds are based on (a) the information identified about treatment effect heterogeneity due to unobservables in the experiment and (b) using differences in outcome distributions across contexts to learn about differences in distributions of unobservables. Empirically, using data from a pair of remedial education experiments carried out in India, I show the bounds are able to recover average treatment effects in one location using results from the other while the benchmark method cannot.