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时变可预测性的稳健推断：Sieve-IVX 方法AI 解读

Predictive regression models are often used to evaluate the predictive capability of economic fundamentals on bond and equity returns. Inferential procedures in these regressions typically employ parameter constancy or piecewise constancy in slope coefficients. Such formulations are prone to misspecification, more especially during periods of disturbance or evolution in prevailing economic and financial conditions, which can lead to size distortion and spurious evidence of…

针对协变量完全缺失的增广迁移回归学习AI 解读

Abstract Large-scale population-level datasets, such as the UK Biobank and the All of Us Research Program, often lack covariates needed for a specific analysis, such as genetic or lifestyle measures, while related studies measure them. This creates a cross-population missing-data problem in which covariates are completely unobserved in the target population, rather than partially missing within one dataset. We propose an augmented transfer regression learning method for this…

非线性结构模型中边际效应分布与分位数的面板估计：垃圾食品需求应用AI 解读

In this paper, we propose a framework to estimate the distribution of marginal effects in a general class of structural models that allow for very general nonlinearities, high dimensional heterogeneity, and unrestricted correlation between the persistent components of this heterogeneity and all covariates. The main idea is to form a derivative dependent variable using two periods of the panel and use differences in outcome variables of nearby subpopulations to obtain the…

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…

单一积分型尾部形状参数下极端 VaR 与 ES 的联合动态AI 解读

We propose a robust semi-parametric framework for persistent time-varying extreme tail behavior, including extreme Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). The framework builds on Extreme Value Theory and uses a conditional version of the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) for peaks-over-threshold (POT) dynamics. Unlike earlier approaches, our model (i) has unit root-like, that is, integrated autoregressive dynamics for the GPD tail shape, and (ii) re-scales POTs…

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…

生育、子女性别与父母迁移决策：来自中国的证据AI 解读

We study how the number and gender of children affect rural-tourban parental migration in China. Exploiting variation from the “1.5- child policy,” which allowed a second birth only if the firstborn was a girl, we separately identify the causal effects of fertility and child gender based on a novel semi-parametric method. Using the 2010 population census, we find that an additional child increases the likelihood of joint parental migration by 12.1 percent, while the presence…

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…

最优治疗规则下平均结局的最优推断AI 解读

Abstract When an optimal treatment regime (OTR) is considered, we need to evaluate the OTR in a valid and efficient way. The classical inference applied to the mean outcome under OTR, assuming the OTR is the same as the estimated OTR, might be biased when the regularity assumption that OTR is unique is violated. Although several methods have been proposed to allow nonregularity in such inference, its optimality is unclear due to challenges in deriving semiparametric…

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…

存在少报的有序选择模型中的变化中的变化AI 解读

We develop a Difference-in-Differences framework for discrete, ordered outcomes subject to underreporting. Such outcomes commonly arise in self-reported surveys on socially undesirable or stigmatized behaviors, where respondents may conceal their true behavior. For a discrete Changes-in-Changes model that is shown to admit an equivalent threshold-crossing representation, we derive nonparametric bounds for the counterfactual and factual outcome distributions as well as for…

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…

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…

利用受限得分检验推断函数值参数AI 解读

Abstract It is often of interest to make inference on an unknown function that is a local parameter of the data-generating mechanism, such as a density or regression function. Such estimands can typically only be estimated at a slower-than-parametric rate in nonparametric and semiparametric models, and performing calibrated inference can be challenging. In many cases, these estimands can be expressed as the minimizer of a population risk functional. Here, we propose a…

用户指定异方差参数模型下的回归有效估计AI 解读

We show that it is possible to estimate regression coefficients at least as precisely as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Weighted Least Squares (WLS) and its recently proposed refinements, regardless of the user’s parametric model for heteroskedasticity. The key is to modify WLS depending on scalar target parameters, e.g., coefficients, marginal effects, predictions, etc. to obtain a targeted WLS that maximizes precision of estimation of the target given the user’s model for…

设定 LASSO 与灵活的特征型资产定价模型AI 解读

This paper studies a partially linear semiparametric additive model that allows for interactions among variables in high-dimensional settings. We propose the Specification LASSO (S-LASSO), a two-step method that integrates LASSO and Adaptive Group LASSO to simultaneously perform variable selection and model specification. Theoretically, we establish that S-LASSO possesses oracle properties in terms of selection consistency and asymptotic normality. Monte Carlo simulations…

强度变化的重复处理下的工具变量回归AI 解读

Instrumental variable models with repeated endogenous treatments are popular in empirical research using pooled cross-sectional or short panel datasets. This paper proposes a novel semi-parametric approach that explicitly considers 1) path dependency in the contemporaneous treatment effect and 2) a direct carryover effect from past treatments. We demonstrate that when either of these new features is present, the standard two-stage least squares estimator is generally…

连续暴露的增量干预效应AI 解读

Causal inference problems often involve continuous treatments, such as dose, duration, or frequency. However, identifying and estimating standard dose-response estimands requires that everyone has some chance of receiving any level of the exposure (i.e., positivity). To avoid this assumption, we consider stochastic interventions based on exponentially tilting the treatment distribution by some parameter $δ$ (an incremental effect); this increases or decreases the likelihood…

翻转干预下的纵向加权与修剪处理效应AI 解读

Weighting and trimming are popular methods for addressing positivity violations in causal inference. While well-studied with single-timepoint data, standard methods do not easily generalize to longitudinal data and remain vulnerable to time-varying positivity violations. We extend weighting and trimming to longitudinal settings via stochastic “flip” interventions, which maintain the treatment status of subjects who would have received the target treatment, and flip others’…

依赖删失生存模型中回归参数的界AI 解读

Abstract We propose a semiparametric model to study the effect of covariates on the distribution of a censored event time while making minimal assumptions about the censoring mechanism. The model is partially identified, and we obtain bounds on the covariate effects which are allowed to be time-dependent. Moreover, these bounds can be interpreted as classical confidence intervals and are obtained by aggregating information in the conditional Peterson bounds over the…

持久时间序列中随机周期的估计AI 解读

A number of economic, financial, and climatic time series exhibit persistent cycles which are characterized by time-dependence patterns and peaks in the spectrum. In this article, we introduce a class of semiparametric cyclical–memory processes which enable the modeling of random cyclical patterns in stationary and non-stationary time series. We develop a theoretical background and asymptotic estimation theory for the frequency of a cycle represented by the location of a…

再随机化与分层再随机化下灵活协变量调整的渐近推断AI 解读

Abstract Rerandomization is an effective treatment allocation procedure to control for baseline covariate imbalance. For estimating the average treatment effect, rerandomization has been previously shown to improve the precision of the unadjusted and the linearly adjusted estimators over simple randomization without compromising consistency. However, it remains unclear whether such results apply more generally to the class of M-estimators, including the g-computation formula…

观察性研究中因果推断的样本量与检验力计算AI 解读

This paper investigates the theoretical foundation and develops analytical formulas for sample size and power calculations for causal inference with observational data. By analyzing the variance of an inverse probability weighting estimator of the average treatment effect, we decompose the power calculation into three components: propensity score distribution, potential outcome distribution and their correlation. We show that to determine the minimal sample size of an…