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异质性部分干扰下观察性研究处理效应的半参数估计AI 解读

In many observational studies in social science and medicine, subjects or units are connected, and one unit’s treatment and attributes may affect another’s treatment and outcome, violating the stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA) and resulting in interference. To enable feasible estimation and inference, many previous works assume exchangeability of interfering units (neighbors). However, in many applications with distinctive units, interference is heterogeneous…

利用解偏变量进行因果推断AI 解读

This paper shows that incorporating what we call antidotal variables (AV) into a causal treatment effects analysis can with one cross-sectional regression identify the causal effect, the spillover effect, as well as possible biases from selectivity. We apply the AV technique to analyze leave taking arising from the California Paid Family Leave (CPFL) program. Our analysis yields between a 55% and 70% larger treatment effect than the traditional DID methods, which we…

弱识别与少量聚类下工具变量分位数回归的梯度野生自助法AI 解读

We study the gradient wild bootstrap-based inference for instrumental variable quantile regressions in the framework of a small number of large clusters in which the number of clusters is viewed as fixed, and the number of observations for each cluster diverges to infinity. For the Wald inference, we show that our wild bootstrap Wald test, with or without studentization using the cluster-robust covariance estimator (CRVE), controls size asymptotically up to a small error as…

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异质性面板中的个体平均估计AI 解读

In this work, we introduce a unit averaging procedure to efficiently recover unit-specific parameters in a heterogeneous panel model. The procedure consists in estimating the parameter of a given unit using a weighted average of all the unit-specific parameter estimators in the panel. The weights of the average are determined by minimizing an MSE criterion we derive. We analyze the properties of the resulting minimum MSE unit averaging estimator in a local heterogeneity…

排序数据的静态与动态贝叶斯加性回归树模型AI 解读

Ranking lists are often provided at regular time intervals in a range of applications, including economics, sports, marketing, and politics. Most popular methods for rank-order data postulate a linear specification for the latent scores, which determine the observed ranks, and ignore the temporal dependence of the ranking lists. To address these issues, novel nonparametric static (ROBART) and autoregressive (ARROBART) models are developed, with latent scores defined as…

利用辅助数据界定遗漏变量偏差：邻里效应估计应用AI 解读

This paper develops a method for estimating a superset that contains the linear projection coefficients of an outcome variable y onto a full set of covariates (x,z,w), when the available data are split across two independent sources. One dataset identifies the joint distribution of y and a subset of covariates (z,w), while the other identifies the joint distribution of (x,z). This framework is motivated by applications where administrative data lacks information on…

律师的价值：以附带来源规则变更作为无效工具变量AI 解读

ABSTRACT The value of lawyers to their clients is notoriously difficult to estimate because of endogeneity. We utilize modifications to the collateral source (CS) rule that require reducing trial awards by the amount of payments from first‐party insurance as an instrument for hiring a lawyer. The problem with our instrument is that modifications to the CS rule have a direct effect on recovery and, hence, violate the exclusion restriction required for a valid instrument. We…

异质性面板数据模型的估计及其在项目评估中的应用AI 解读

This article studies panel data models with two-dimensional unobserved slope heterogeneity and interactive fixed effects. We propose a two-step approach to estimate the parameters in the model. We apply the proposed model to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects at both individual and aggregate levels. Monte Carlo simulations show that the proposed estimators perform remarkably well in finite samples in comparison with some existing methods such as the synthetic control…

半参数广义帕累托模型中的尾部期望分位数估计AI 解读

Expectiles have received increasing attention as a market risk measure that is both coherent and elicitable. They are defined as a least squares analog to quantiles. Their estimation from heavy-tailed loss data in an extreme value framework is an important and difficult problem, especially when the target tail expectile is beyond the range of the data. This problem has been studied only fairly recently, using solely the Weissman extrapolation method. The competing…

交叉设计的因果效应、有效估计与稳健推断AI 解读

Crossover designs randomly assign each unit to receive a sequence of treatments. By comparing outcomes within the same unit, these designs can effectively eliminate between-unit variation and facilitate the identification of both instantaneous effects of current treatments and carryover effects from past treatments. They are widely used in traditional biomedical studies and are increasingly adopted in modern digital platforms. However, standard analyses of crossover designs…

SIMPLE-RC：非尖锐原假设与弱信号下的群组网络推断AI 解读

Large-scale network inference with uncertainty quantification has important applications in natural, social and medical sciences. The recent work of Fan et al. (J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B. Stat. Methodol. 84 (2022) 630–653) introduced a general framework of statistical inference on membership profiles in large networks (SIMPLE) for testing the sharp null hypothesis that a pair of given nodes share the same membership profile. In real applications, there are often groups of…

ABSTRACT Combining a randomized controlled trial with administrative and survey data, this paper shows that credit limit extensions significantly increase total spending and income expectations. By controlling for changes in personal income expectations, the spending response to credit limit extensions weakens by approximately 30%. For financially unconstrained consumers, expectation changes account for around two‐thirds of the spending responses to limit extensions. These…

有向网络互惠效应的最优估计与检验AI 解读

The $p_1$ model plays a fundamental role in modeling directed networks, where the reciprocal effect parameter $ρ$ is of special interest in practice. However, due to nonlinear factors in this model, how to estimate $ρ$ efficiently is a long-standing open problem. We tackle the problem by the cycle count approach. The challenge is, due to the nonlinear factors in the model, for any given type of generalized cycles, the expected count is a complicated function of many…

似然模型中附带参数问题的 Neyman 正交化方法AI 解读

A popular approach to perform inference on a target parameter in the presence of nuisance parameters is to construct estimating equations that are orthogonal to the nuisance parameters, in the sense that their expected first derivative is zero. Such first-order orthogonalization allows the estimator of the nuisance parameters to converge at a slower-than-parametric rate. It may, however, not suffice when the nuisance parameters are very imprecisely estimated. Leading…

对 Suri (2011)《技术采纳中的选择与比较优势》的评论AI 解读

This paper illustrates and addresses weak identification in the correlated random coefficient (CRC) model that Suri (2011) uses to study agricultural technology adoption. Using the publicly available dataset, which differs slightly from the version used in Suri (2011), we obtain different point estimates for the paper’s main CRC model. To understand why these differences are as large as they are, we recast the CRC model as a more general random coefficient model in which the…

协变量漂移下外部有效性的简单稳健性度量AI 解读

This paper studies the robustness of estimated policy effects to changes in the distribution of covariates, a key determinant of the external validity of (quasi)experimental results. I propose a novel robustness metric δ ∗ which measures the smallest covariate shift needed to invalidate an empirical claim about the policy effect (e.g., AT E > 0). I estimate δ ∗ via de-biased GMM, achieving a parametric rate of convergence while accommodating machine-learning estimators of…

一个精确 t 检验AI 解读

Multivariate linear regression and randomization-based inference are two essential methods in statistics and econometrics. Nevertheless, the problem of producing a randomized test for the value of a single regression coefficient that is exactly valid when errors are exchangeable, and which is asymptotically valid for the best linear predictor, has remained elusive. In this paper, we produce a test that is exactly valid with exchangeable errors and which allows for general…

从预测算法到异常的自动生成AI 解读

How can we extract theoretical insights from machine learning algorithms? We take a familiar lesson: researchers often turn intuition into theoretical insight by constructing “anomalies” — specific examples highlighting hypothesized flaws in a theory, such as the Allais paradox. We develop procedures that replace researchers’ intuitions with predictive algorithms: given a predictive algorithm and a theory, our procedures automatically generate anomalies for that theory. We…

异质性主体下的极值理论AI 解读

Extreme value processes feature in any economic model in which agents receive a number of draws from some distribution and we examine the behavior of the maximum in the limit as the number of draws becomes large. This paper asks: Do the average outcomes of such processes change when different agents receive a different number of draws? To answer this, we allow the number of draws an agent receives from the underlying distribution (e.g. of productivities, ideas, or utility…

集合值预测与模型误设下的信息推断AI 解读

This paper proposes an information-based inference method for partially identified parameters in incomplete models that is valid both when the model is correctly specified and when it is misspecified. Key features of the method are: (i) it is based on minimizing a suitably defined Kullback-Leibler information criterion that accounts for incompleteness of the model and delivers a non-empty pseudotrue set; (ii) it is computationally tractable; (iii) its implementation is the…

最富者为何如此富有？新的纵向经验证据及其对财富不平等理论的启示AI 解读

We study the lifecycle dynamics of wealth inequality using 1993-2019 Norwegian administrative panel data on wealth and income. Employing a novel budget-constraint approach, we decompose the excess wealth of the top 0.1% households relative to the median between ages 45 and 64 into higher saving rates (36%), inheritances (31%), returns (28%), and labor income (5%). One-quarter of the wealthiest—the “New Money”—start with negative wealth on average but accumulate rapidly…

含要素增强型技术的生产函数估计：加成率的应用AI 解读

I develop a new method for estimating production functions with laboraugmenting technology and apply it to markup estimation. The method imposes limited parametric restrictions and generalizes prior approaches that rely on the CES production function. I first extend the canonical Olley-Pakes framework assumptions to multidimensional productivity and then develop an identification strategy based on a control variable approach and first-order conditions. I use this method to…

最优公式工具变量AI 解读

When estimating the effects of treatments defined by complex formulas, researchers often use simple functions of exogenous shocks as instruments. A leading example is “simulated instruments” for public policy eligibility, which capture variation in state-level policy generosity. We show how more powerful instruments can be constructed by incorporating heterogeneous shock exposure while using a recentering procedure to avoid bias. We characterize the asymptotically efficient…

固定缴费养老金计划的设计AI 解读

Defined contribution plans are a major vehicle for retirement savings in the US, holding almost $10 trillion in assets under management. In recent years, the quality and availability of these plans has been the subject of active policy attention and of several major lawsuits. This paper studies how employers and plan providers design these plans. We argue that low plan quality and limited provision can come from two sources. First, employer willingness to pay may be…