A Simple Approach to Staggered Difference-in-Differences in the Presence of Spillovers

Authors: Mario Fiorini, Wooyong Lee, Gregor Pfeifer

Date of publication: January 2024

Working paper number: 02

Abstract: 

We establish identifying assumptions and estimation procedures for the ATT in a Difference-in-Differences setting with staggered treatment adoption in the presence of spillovers. We show that the fully interacted TWFE regression approach of Wooldridge [2022] can be extended to our proposition. We broaden our framework to the non-linear case of count data and revisit a corresponding application from the crime literature. Monte Carlo simulations show that our estimator performs competitively.

Keywords: Difference-in-Differences, staggered treatment adoption, spillovers, (non-)linear models

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