TY  - JOUR
AU  - Heckman,James J.
AU  - Navarro,Salvador
TI  - Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Technical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 316
PY  - 2005
Y2  - October 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0316
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0316.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James J. Heckman
Department of Economics
The University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-0634
Fax: 773/702-8490
E-Mail: jjh@uchicago.edu

Salvador Navarro
Department of Economics
Social Science Centre, Room 4071
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2
Tel: 519 661-3500
Fax: 519 661-3666
E-Mail: snavarr@uwo.ca
AB  - This paper considers semiparametric identification of structural dynamic discrete choice models and models for dynamic treatment effects. Time to treatment and counterfactual outcomes associated with treatment times are jointly analyzed. We examine the implicit assumptions of the dynamic treatment model using the structural model as a benchmark. For the structural model we show the gains from using cross equation restrictions connecting choices to associated measurements and outcomes. In the dynamic discrete choice model, we identify both subjective and objective outcomes, distinguishing ex post and ex ante outcomes. We show how to identify agent information sets.
ER  -