Inference on a New Class of Sample Average Treatment Effects
一类新的样本平均处理效应的统计推断
We derive new variance formulas for inference on a general class of estimands of causal average treatment effects in a randomized control trial. We generalize the seminal work of Robins and show that when the researcher’s objective is inference on sample average treatment effect of the treated (SATT), a consistent variance estimator exists. Although this estimand is equal to the sample average treatment effect (SATE) in expectation, potentially large differences in both…