The "average" treatment effect: A construct ripe for retirement. A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Center for Population & Department Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: svsubram@hsph.harvard.edu.
• ² Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.