Retail Pharmacies and Drug Diversion — expanded estimators

Janssen and Zhang (2023), AER. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20210357

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

Treatment adoption

Treatment adoption timing

S15-P002: seeded sample of 100 of 82,873 eligible units. Purple untreated; yellow treated; white unobserved.

RPD-T3-C4-ALL-OPIOIDS

RPD-T3-C4-ALL-OPIOIDS · Main Table 3 Column 4 · Data & fit details

5,054,615 observations · 82,873 units · 15,493 clusters · 298 treated / 82,575 control units.

Estimate comparison

S15-P001: point estimates, targets and available 95% intervals
Estimator Estimate (SDs) SE 95% CI Averaging
Static TWFE -0.205 0.031 [-0.266, -0.144] Coefficient
Dynamic TWFE -0.154 0.034 [-0.221, -0.086] Treated cells
BJS / did2s -0.172 0.027 [-0.225, -0.118] Treated cells
Sun–Abraham -0.146 0.029 [-0.203, -0.089] Treated cells
CS-DID (equal event-time) -0.122 0.038 [-0.197, -0.047] Equal post-event times
CS-DID (treated cells) -0.132 0.038 [-0.207, -0.057] Treated cells
Matrix completion -0.166 — — Treated cells

Event studies

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

Dynamic TWFE event study Sun–Abraham event study BJS / did2s event study CS-DID event study Matrix completion event study

RPD-T3-C9-OXYCONTIN

RPD-T3-C9-OXYCONTIN · Main Table 3 Column 9 · Data & fit details

5,054,615 observations · 82,873 units · 15,493 clusters · 298 treated / 82,575 control units.

Estimate comparison

S15-P002: point estimates, targets and available 95% intervals
Estimator Estimate (SDs) SE 95% CI Averaging
Static TWFE -0.189 0.054 [-0.296, -0.083] Coefficient
Dynamic TWFE -0.071 0.033 [-0.136, -0.006] Treated cells
BJS / did2s -0.137 0.036 [-0.208, -0.067] Treated cells
Sun–Abraham -0.065 0.030 [-0.124, -0.006] Treated cells
CS-DID (equal event-time) -0.028 0.038 [-0.103, 0.047] Equal post-event times
CS-DID (treated cells) -0.050 0.035 [-0.118, 0.019] Treated cells
Matrix completion -0.120 — — Treated cells

Event studies

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

Dynamic TWFE event study Sun–Abraham event study BJS / did2s event study CS-DID event study Matrix completion event study