Average treatment effects estimands can present significant bias under the presence of outliers. Moreover, outliers can … outliers. Bad and good leverage points outliers are considered. The bias arises because bad leverage points completely change … the propensity score. We provide some clues to diagnose the presence of outliers and propose a reweighting estimator that …

Outliers can be particularly hard to detect, creating bias and inconsistency in the semi-parametric estimates. In this … presence of outliers. Bad and good leverage point outliers are considered. Bias arises in the case of bad leverage points … correct for the effects of outliers following a reweighting strategy in the spirit of the Stahel-Donoho (SD) multivariate …