Revisiting event study designs: robust and efficient estimation

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We develop a framework for difference-in-differences designs with staggered treatment adoption and heterogeneous causal effects.We show that conventional regression-based estimators fail to provide unbiased estimates of relevant estimands absent strong restrictions on treatmenteffect homogeneity.We then derive the efficient estimator addressing this challenge, which takes an intuitive "imputation" form when treatment-effect heterogeneity is unrestricted.We characterize the asymptotic behavior of...

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• Research demonstrates significant advances in experimental measurements
• Study provides new evidence regarding theoretical framework validation
• Findings open new directions for observational data analysis

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