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劳动者侧歧视：信念与偏好AI 解读

When agents choose among options with unobserved attributes to maximize expected utility, their choices conflate preferences with beliefs about those attributes. We develop a novel theory-driven identification strategy for such settings, showing that compensating differentials separately identify beliefs from preferences. Noting that workers’ preferences and beliefs shape labor market outcomes, yet remain understudied, we apply our method to provide the first evidence on the…

样本选择下观测数据中总体平均与分位处理效应的部分识别AI 解读

ABSTRACT This article partially identifies population treatment effects in observational data under both non‐random treatment assignment and sample selection. Bounds are provided for both average and quantile population treatment effects, combining assumptions for the selected and the non‐selected subsamples. We show how different assumptions help narrow identification regions, and we illustrate our methods by partially identifying the effect of maternal education on the…

任意噪声污染下线性模型的置信区间AI 解读

Summary We study confidence interval construction for linear regression under Huber’s contamination model, where an unknown fraction of noise variables is arbitrarily corrupted. While robust point estimation in this setting is well understood, statistical inference remains challenging, especially because the contamination proportion is not identifiable from the data. We develop a new algorithm that constructs confidence intervals for individual regression coefficients…

前门模型下因果效应的灵活非参数推断AI 解读

Abstract Evaluating causal treatment effects in observational studies requires addressing confounding. While the back-door criterion enables identification through adjustment for observed covariates, it fails in the presence of unmeasured confounding. The front-door criterion offers an alternative by leveraging variables that fully mediate the treatment effect and are unaffected by unmeasured confounders of the treatment-outcome pair. We develop novel one-step and targeted…

检测异质组织跨样本空间表达变异的灵活贝叶斯框架AI 解读

Spatial transcriptomics measures gene expression alongside the spatial coordinates of each capture spot or cell across tissue samples. The detection of spatially variable (SV) genes, whose expression exhibits systematic spatial variation, enables the delineation of functional tissue domains and the identification of region-specific transcriptional changes that underlie disease heterogeneity. However, empirical evidence from spatial transcriptomics data indicates that…

结合协变量与稀疏内在得分的实体排序AI 解读

This paper addresses the item ranking problem with associated covariates, focusing on scenarios where the preference scores can not be fully explained by covariates, and the remaining intrinsic scores are sparse. Specifically, we extend the pioneering Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model by incorporating covariate information and considering sparse individual intrinsic scores. Our work introduces novel model identification conditions and examines the statistical rates of the…

超越固定截断时点：临床试验中的自适应限制平均生存时间方法AI 解读

Summary Restricted mean survival time offers a compelling nonparametric alternative to hazard ratios for right-censored time-to-event data, particularly when the proportional hazards assumption is violated. By capturing the total event-free time over a specified horizon, it provides an intuitive and clinically meaningful measure of absolute treatment benefit. Nonetheless, selecting the restriction time poses challenges: choosing a small restriction time may overlook…

利用大时间维度面板数据估计未观测的横截面网络连接AI 解读

We propose a simple three-step method to estimate the cross-sectional interdependence in a customary network econometric model with an unobserved network and a large T. First, we estimate the reduced-form model to construct instruments for the endogenous peer outcomes. Second, we use two-stage least squares to estimate the direct and contextual effects of the exogenous regressors, as well as the endogenous peer effect. Third, we estimate the network weight matrix. Monte…

从旋转不变性到标量不变性：提升得分驱动因子模型的可识别性AI 解读

We show that, for a certain class of scaling matrices including the inverse square-root of the conditional Fisher information, score-driven factor models are identifiable up to a multiplicative scalar constant under very mild restrictions. This result has no analogue in parameter-driven models, as it exploits the different structure of the score-driven factor dynamics. Consequently, score-driven factor models overcome the issue of rotational invariance that typically affects…

乘法工具变量模型AI 解读

Summary The instrumental variable (IV) design is a common approach to address hidden confounding bias. For validity, an IV must impact the outcome only through its association with the treatment. In addition, IV identification has required a homogeneity condition such as monotonicity or no unmeasured common effect modifier between the additive effect of the treatment on the outcome, and that of the IV on the treatment. In this work, we introduce the Multiplicative…

函数型时间序列的近似因子模型AI 解读

We propose a novel approximate factor model tailored for analyzing time-dependent curve data. Our model decomposes such data into two distinct components: a low-dimensional predictable factor component and an unpredictable error term. These components are identified through the autocovariance structure of the underlying functional time series. The model parameters are consistently estimated using the eigencomponents of a cumulative autocovariance operator and an information…

主分层可忽略性下基于 U 统计量的主分层推断AI 解读

Abstract Principal stratification is a popular framework for causal inference in the presence of an intermediate outcome. While the principal average treatment effects are the standard target of inference, they may be insufficient when interest lies in the relative ordering of potential outcomes within a principal stratum. We introduce the principal generalized causal effect estimands to accommodate nonlinear contrast functions, providing robust, probability-scale summaries…

条件可分离效应的近端因果推断AI 解读

Abstract Scientists regularly pose questions about treatment effects on outcomes conditional on a posttreatment event. However, causal inference in such settings requires care, even in perfectly executed randomized experiments. Recently, the conditional separable effect (CSE) was proposed as an interventionist estimand that corresponds to scientifically meaningful questions in these settings. However, existing results for the CSE require no unmeasured confounding between the…

细胞类型反卷积的统计推断AI 解读

Abstract Integrating heterogeneous datasets across different measurement platforms poses fundamental challenges for statistical inference. An important example is cell type deconvolution, where cell type proportions in bulk RNA-seq data are estimated using reference single-cell data from different sources, leading to platform-specific scaling effects, measurement noise, and biological heterogeneity. Existing methods often treat estimated proportions as observed in downstream…

网络干扰下修正处理政策的因果效应AI 解读

Abstract Modified treatment policies are a widely applicable class of interventions useful for studying the causal effects of continuous exposures. Approaches to evaluating their causal effects assume no interference, meaning that such effects cannot be learned from data in settings where the exposure of one unit affects the outcomes of others, as is common in spatial or network data. We introduce a new class of intervention—induced modified treatment policies—which we show…

合成工具变量：从稀疏关联到稀疏因果效应AI 解读

Abstract In many observational studies, researchers are often interested in the effects of multiple exposures on a single outcome. Standard approaches for high-dimensional data, such as the Lasso, assume that the associations between the exposures and the outcome are sparse. However, these methods do not estimate causal effects in the presence of unmeasured confounding. In this paper, we consider an alternative approach that assumes the causal effects under consideration are…

识别失败与模型设定正确性的协调检验AI 解读

We develop a specification test for GMM and Minimum Distance (MD) inference that is: (i) robust to weak identification; (ii) easy to implement and broadly applicable; and (iii) has meaningful power. Our specification test is based on a conditional inference approach: information about the existence of strongly identified directions in the parameter space is exploited to define a data-dependent critical value, which, in turn, increases the power of the resulting specification…

测地线双重差分AI 解读

Summary Difference-in-differences (DID) is a widely used quasi-experimental design for causal inference, traditionally applied to scalar or Euclidean outcomes, while extensions to outcomes residing in non-Euclidean spaces remain limited. Existing methods for such outcomes have primarily focused on univariate distributions, leveraging linear operations in the space of quantile functions, but these approaches cannot be directly extended to outcomes in general metric spaces. In…

通过知识驱动的在线多模态自动表型系统降低电子健康记录研究门槛AI 解读

Electronic health records (EHRs) hold great promise for translational research but remain difficult to use at scale because diagnostic codes are noisy, disease-relevant features are hard to identify, high-quality labels are limited and patient-level data sharing is often restricted. We introduce Knowledge-driven Online Multimodal Automated Phenotyping (KOMAP), a unified system for automated, privacy-preserving EHR phenotyping using summary statistics. The system is organized…

高维因子模型中多个结构断点的分类与估计AI 解读

This paper proposes a quasi-maximum likelihood (QML) estimator for break points in high-dimensional factor models, specifically accounting for multiple structural breaks. We begin by establishing a necessary and sufficient condition to categorize two distinct types of breaks in factor loadings: singular changes and rotational changes. The analysis of the nearly singular subsample covariance matrices of the pseudo-factors plays a key role in our approach. It allows us to…

存在干扰参数时矩约束的统一推断AI 解读

This article proposes a simple unified inference approach on moment restrictions in the presence of nuisance parameters. The proposed test is constructed based on a new characterization that avoids the estimation of nuisance parameters and can be broadly applied across diverse settings. Under suitable conditions, the test is shown to be asymptotically size controlled and consistent for both independent and dependent samples. Monte Carlo simulations show that the test…

达成议价：工资议价冲击的叙事识别AI 解读

ABSTRACT Wage markup shocks, an important driver of business cycles, are hard to pin down. We quantify the importance of exogenous variation in wage bargaining power, one source of those shocks, from German minimum wage introduction episodes and strikes. This disciplines the impulse responses of unemployment and output, and sharpens inference for other variables, which behave consistently with predictions from search‐and‐matching models. We find that wage bargaining shocks…

贝叶斯学习中的经验贝叶斯：理解一种常见实践AI 解读

In applications of Bayesian procedures, once a class of priors has been chosen, it may be tempting to fix the prior's hyperparameters from the data, in an empirical Bayes (EB) fashion, usually by their maximum marginal likelihood estimates (MMLE). This is a quite common but questionable practice, lacking a rigorous theoretical basis. We provide a theoretical framework where this form of EB is regarded as a computational strategy for approximating a genuine Bayesian posterior…

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共同基金 alpha 的异质可预测性：稀疏聚类 GMM 方法AI 解读

Mutual fund managers' skills, measured by risk-adjusted alphas, are predictable using fund characteristics identified by machine learning (e.g., Kaniel et al., 2023, JFE; DeMiguel et al., 2023, JFE). However, alpha's predictive power varies across funds and periods, with most funds exhibiting negligible alphas. To model this heterogeneous predictability, this paper introduces Sparse Clustering GMM, a nonparametric approach for uncovering latent fund groups. SCGMM clusters…