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矩阵补全、反事实与缺失数据的因子分析AI 解读

This paper proposes an imputation procedure that uses the factors estimated from a tall block along with the re-rotated loadings estimated from a wide block to impute missing values in a panel of data. Assuming that a strong factor structure holds for the full panel of data and its sub-blocks, it is shown that the common component can be consistently estimated at four different rates of convergence without requiring regularization or iteration. An asymptotic analysis of the…

大量时期与大量对照单位下合成控制估计量的性质AI 解读

We consider the asymptotic properties of the synthetic control (SC) estimator when both the number of pretreatment periods and control units are large. If potential outcomes follow a linear factor model, we provide conditions under which the SC unit asymptotically recovers the factor structure of the treated unit, even when the pretreatment fit is imperfect. This happens when there are weights diluted among an increasing number of control units such that a weighted average…

人工对照的反事实分析：推断、高维与非平稳性AI 解读

Recently, there has been growing interest in developing statistical tools to conduct counterfactual analysis with aggregate data when a single “treated” unit suffers an intervention, such as a policy change, and there is no obvious control group. Usually, the proposed methods are based on the construction of an artificial counterfactual from a pool of “untre ated” peers, organized in a panel data structure. In this article, we consider a general framework for counterfactual…

增广合成控制法AI 解读

The synthetic control method (SCM) is a popular approach for estimating the impact of a treatment on a single unit in panel data settings. The “synthetic control” is a weighted average of control units that balances the treated unit’s pretreatment outcomes and other covariates as closely as possible. A critical feature of the original proposal is to use SCM only when the fit on pretreatment outcomes is excellent. We propose Augmented SCM as an extension of SCM to settings…

主成分回归的稳健性AI 解读

Principal component regression (PCR) is a simple, but powerful and ubiquitously utilized method. Its effectiveness is well established when the covariates exhibit low-rank structure. However, its ability to handle settings with noisy, missing, and mixed-valued, that is, discrete and continuous, covariates is not understood and remains an important open challenge. As the main contribution of this work, we establish the robustness of PCR, without any change, in this respect…

反事实与合成控制的精确稳健共形推断方法AI 解读

We introduce new inference procedures for counterfactual and synthetic control methods for policy evaluation. We recast the causal inference problem as a counterfactual prediction and a structural breaks testing problem. This allows us to exploit insights from conformal prediction and structural breaks testing to develop permutation inference procedures that accommodate modern high-dimensional estimators, are valid under weak and easy-to-verify conditions, and are provably…

因果面板数据模型的矩阵补全方法AI 解读

In this paper we study methods for estimating causal effects in settings with panel data, where some units are exposed to a treatment during some periods and the goal is estimating counterfactual (untreated) outcomes for the treated unit/period combinations. We propose a class of matrix completion estimators that uses the observed elements of the matrix of control outcomes corresponding to untreated unit/periods to impute the "missing" elements of the control outcome matrix,…

处理不完整依从信息的贝叶斯分层 CACE 模型：硬膜外镇痛与剖宫产的荟萃分析AI 解读

Noncompliance with assigned treatments is a common challenge in analyzing and interpreting randomized clinical trials (RCTs). One way to handle noncompliance is to estimate the complier-average causal effect (CACE), the intervention's efficacy in the subpopulation that complies with assigned treatment. In a two-step meta-analysis, one could first estimate CACE for each study, then combine them to estimate the population-averaged CACE. However, when some trials do not report…

刻画有向脑网络的贝叶斯状态空间方法AI 解读

The human brain is a directional network system of brain regions involving directional connectivity. Seizures are a directional network phenomenon as abnormal neuronal activities start from a seizure onset zone (SOZ) and propagate to otherwise healthy regions. To localize the SOZ of an epileptic patient, clinicians use intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) to record the patient’s intracranial brain activity in many small regions. iEEG data are high-dimensional…

急诊普外科结局工具变量研究中的偏倚鼓励与异质性效应AI 解读

We investigate the efficacy of surgical versus nonsurgical management for two gastrointestinal conditions, colitis and diverticulitis, using observational data. We deploy an instrumental variable design with surgeons’ tendencies to operate as an instrument. Assuming instrument validity, we find that nonsurgical alternatives can reduce both hospital length of stay and the risk of complications, with estimated effects larger for septic patients than for nonseptic patients. The…

多阈值回归不连续设计中的处理效应外推AI 解读

In non-experimental settings, the Regression Discontinuity (RD) design is one of the most credible identification strategies for program evaluation and causal inference. However, RD treatment effect estimands are necessarily local, making statistical methods for the extrapolation of these effects a key area for development. We introduce a new method for extrapolation of RD effects that relies on the presence of multiple cutoffs, and is therefore design-based. Our approach…

随机实验中弱零假设的随机化检验AI 解读

The Fisher randomization test (FRT) is appropriate for any test statistic, under a sharp null hypothesis that can recover all missing potential outcomes. However, it is often sought after to test a weak null hypothesis that the treatment does not affect the units on average. To use the FRT for a weak null hypothesis, we must address two issues. First, we need to impute the missing potential outcomes although the weak null hypothesis cannot determine all of them. Second, we…

在线性模型中引出、纳入并约束识别信念的框架AI 解读

To estimate causal effects from observational data, an applied researcher must impose beliefs. The instrumental variables exclusion restriction, for example, represents the belief that the instrument has no direct effect on the outcome of interest. Yet beliefs about instrument validity do not exist in isolation. Applied researchers often discuss the likely direction of selection and the potential for measurement error in their articles but lack formal tools for incorporating…

环境市场能否优于开放取用？来自加州地下水权的证据AI 解读

Environmental markets are widely prescribed as an alternative to open access regimes for natural resources. We develop a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial regression discontinuity design that exploits a spatially incomplete market for groundwater rights recovers a lower bound on the market’s net benefit. We apply this estimator to a major aquifer in water-scarce southern California and find that a groundwater market generated substantial…

两阶段富集试验设计的统计推断AI 解读

Two-stage enrichment designs can be used to target the benefiting population in clinical trials based on patients’ biomarkers. In the case of continuous biomarkers, we show that using a bivariate model that treats biomarkers as random variables more accurately identifies a treatment-benefiting enriched population than assuming biomarkers are fixed. Additionally, we show that under the bivariate model, the maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) follow a randomly scaled mixture…

受限随机占优的改进自助检验AI 解读

Bootstrap Testing for restricted stochastic dominance of a pre-specified order between two distributions is of interest in many areas of economics. This paper develops a new method for improving the performance of such tests that employ a moment selection procedure: tilting the empirical distribution in the moment selection procedure. We propose that the amount of tilting be chosen to maximize the empirical likelihood subject to the restrictions of the null hypothesis, which…

大型面板数据模型的递归估计：理论与实践AI 解读

Bai (2009) proposes recursive estimation for panel data models with interactive effects. We study the behaviours of this recursive estimator. The recursive formula is established that shows the behaviours of recursive estimators depend on the initial estimator, the population structure and the iterative steps. Under some general scenarios, we find that the recursive estimator becomes consistent after the first iteration from any initials. We also obtain the optimal number of…

网络形成的计量模型：企业董事交叉任职应用AI 解读

We study identification of the players’ preferences in a network formation game featuring complete information, nonreciprocal links, and a spillover effect. We decompose the network formation game into local games such that the network formation game is in equilibrium if and only if each local game is in equilibrium. This decomposition helps us prove equilibrium existence, reduce the number of moment inequalities characterising the identified set, and simplify the…

空间横截面与面板模型的同方差诊断检验AI 解读

We propose an Adjusted Quasi-Score (AQS) method for constructing tests for homoskedasticity in spatial econometric models. We first obtain an AQS function by adjusting the score-type function from the given model to achieve unbiasedness, and then develop an Outer-Product-of-Martingale-Difference (OPMD) estimate of its variance. In standard problems where a genuine (quasi) score vector is available, the AQS–OPMD method leads to finite sample improved tests over the usual…

孩子引领改变：风险投资中的性别多样性与业绩AI 解读

Given overall lack of gender diversity in the venture capital and entrepreneurship industry shown in Calder-Wang and Gompers (2017) we ask: What promotes greater gender diversity in hiring? Does diversity lead to better firm performance and higher investment returns? In this paper, using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners’ children, we find strong evidence that when partners have more daughters, the propensity to hire female partners increases.…

定向货币政策与银行贷款行为AI 解读

We exploit an allocation rule set by the ECB for the first series of TLTROs to study the effects of targeted monetary policy on banks’ credit supply to firms. Combining transaction-level data from the Italian credit register and an instrumental variable identification strategy, we find that targeted longer-term central bank liquidity decreased rates and increased loan amounts, also avoiding some unintended consequences of untargeted measures, such as carry-trade strategies…

欧拉方程的非参数识别与估计AI 解读

We consider nonparametric identification and estimation of pricing kernels, or equivalently of marginal utility functions up to scale, in consumption-based asset pricing Euler equations. Ours is the first paper to prove nonparametric identification of Euler equations under low level conditions (without imposing functional restrictions or just assuming completeness). We also propose a novel nonparametric estimator based on our identification analysis, which combines standard…

混合 Logit 模型的稀疏协方差估计AI 解读

Summary This paper introduces a new data-driven methodology for estimating sparse covariance matrices of the random coefficients in logit mixture models. Researchers typically specify covariance matrices in logit mixture models under one of two extreme assumptions: either an unrestricted full covariance matrix (allowing correlations between all random coefficients), or a restricted diagonal matrix (allowing no correlations at all). Our objective is to find optimal subsets of…

相关随机效应非线性面板模型中的偏效应AI 解读

Summary Nonlinearity and heterogeneity are known to cause difficulties in estimating and interpreting partial effects. This paper provides a systematic characterization of the various partial effects in nonlinear panel data models that might be of interest to empirical researchers. The interpretation of the partial effects depends upon (i) whether the distribution of unobserved heterogeneity is treated as fixed or allowed to vary with covariates, and (ii) whether one is…