Article
Parallel Trends in an Unparalleled Pandemic Difference-in-differences for infectious disease policy evaluation
2024-04-10
Abstract excerpt
Researchers frequently employ difference-in-differences (DiD) to study the impact of public health interventions on infectious disease outcomes. DiD assumes that treatment and non-experimental comparison groups would have moved in parallel in expectation, absent the intervention (“parallel trends assumption”). However, the plausibility of parallel trends assumption in the context of infectious disease transmission...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7e27c9c0-fd2f-5df6-bc2b-3bb71574e2e2
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.04.08.24305335
