不是本來 DID 方法就直接適用上例营业税改增值税事件嗎?不同城市、時間的受影響,剛剛好就是 DID 所需要的情況,同一時間所有城市都受到影響才不可使用 DID 法分析!類似情況可見下文:Big Bad Banks? The Winners and Losers from Bank Deregulation in the United States。在該文中,作者利用美國不同州、不同時間對銀行分支解除管制來分析其對所得分配之影響效果。(Exploiting the cross-state, cross-time variation in the timing of branch deregulation, we find that deregulation materially tightened the distribution of income by boosting incomes in the lower part of the income distribution while having little impact on incomes above the median.) 當然,我們假設此情況符合 DID 的 parallel trend 要求。