方法对比

	异质处理效应面板事件研究	面板事件研究
领域	因果推断	因果推断
方法族	Regression model	Regression model
起源年份	2021	1990s–2020s (modern panel formulation)
提出者	Sun & Abraham; Callaway & Sant'Anna	Formalized by Freyaldenhoven, Hansen, Perez-Orive & Shapiro (2021); widely applied in finance (Fama et al. 1969) and policy evaluation
类型	Causal inference / quasi-experimental	Quasi-experimental / causal panel design
开创性文献	Sun, L., & Abraham, S. (2021). Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects. Journal of Econometrics, 225(2), 175-199.	Freyaldenhoven, S., Hansen, C., Perez-Orive, J., & Shapiro, J. M. (2021). Visualization, Identification, and Estimation in the Linear Panel Event-Study Design. NBER Working Paper 29170. National Bureau of Economic Research.
别名	HTE panel event study, heterogeneous effects event study, staggered panel event study, CATT event study	event-study regression, dynamic DiD, relative-time regression, distributed-lag panel model
相关	4	4
摘要	A heterogeneous treatment effect panel event study estimates how treatment impacts vary across units and over time in a panel setting, allowing each cohort of treated units to have its own dynamic response. Seminal contributions by Sun and Abraham (2021) and Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021) showed that standard two-way fixed-effects event studies mask sign-reversing treatment heterogeneity across cohorts, motivating cohort-specific estimation followed by flexible aggregation.	A panel event study estimates the dynamic causal effect of a treatment or policy by regressing an outcome on a full set of relative-time indicators — one for each period before and after the event — while controlling for unit and time fixed effects. The resulting coefficient plot shows how the treated units diverged from untreated units at each point in calendar time relative to their treatment date, making both pre-treatment trend violations and post-treatment effect trajectories immediately visible.