The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa — expanded estimators

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Hjort and Poulsen (2019), AER. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20161385

3 specifications. Effects are in outcome standard deviations; intervals are 95%.

Treatment adoption

Treatment adoption timing

S07-P002: seeded sample of 94 of 94 eligible units. Purple untreated; yellow treated; white unobserved.

FIA-T2-C1

FIA-T2-C1 · S07-P001 · Data & fit details

2,474 observations · 127 units · 127 clusters · 25 treated / 102 control units.

Estimate comparison

S07-P001: point estimates, targets and available 95% intervals
Estimator Estimate (SDs) SE 95% CI Averaging
Static TWFE 0.291 0.110 [0.074, 0.508] Coefficient
Dynamic TWFE 0.414 0.137 [0.142, 0.686] Treated cells
BJS / did2s 0.273 0.109 [0.058, 0.488] Treated cells
Sun–Abraham 0.425 0.151 [0.125, 0.725] Treated cells

Event studies

Periods −10 to +10; pointwise 95% intervals where available.

Dynamic TWFE event study BJS / did2s event study Sun–Abraham event study

FIA-T2-C2

FIA-T2-C2 · S07-P002 · Data & fit details

1,632 observations · 94 units · 94 clusters · 17 treated / 77 control units.

Estimate comparison

S07-P002: point estimates, targets and available 95% intervals
Estimator Estimate (SDs) SE 95% CI Averaging
Static TWFE 0.293 0.138 [0.020, 0.567] Coefficient
Dynamic TWFE 0.347 0.185 [-0.021, 0.714] Treated cells
BJS / did2s 0.315 0.145 [0.026, 0.603] Treated cells
Sun–Abraham 0.365 0.198 [-0.028, 0.758] Treated cells

Event studies

Periods −10 to +10; pointwise 95% intervals where available.

Dynamic TWFE event study BJS / did2s event study Sun–Abraham event study

FIA-T2-C3

FIA-T2-C3 · S07-P003 · Data & fit details

Imputation is unidentified with the configured first-stage controls.