The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
替代指标指数:结合短期代理更快、更精确地估计长期处理效应
Abstract A common challenge in estimating the impact of interventions (e.g. job training programmes, educational programmes) is that many outcomes of interest (e.g. lifetime earnings or other labour market outcomes) are observed with a long delay. In biomedical settings, this is often addressed by using short-term outcomes as so-called “surrogates” for the outcome of interest, e.g. tumour size as a surrogate for mortality in cancer studies. We build on this literature by…