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误分类二元数据的贝叶斯分位数回归及配偶暴力报告应用AI 解读

Survey responses on socially undesirable behaviors, such as self-reported spousal violence, are often subject to underreporting due to social stigma, fear of retaliation, and other reporting pressures. When such data are analyzed using standard econometric models that focus on conditional means, such as probit and logit models, the resulting estimates are likely to be biased and can obscure heterogeneity in covariate effects. To address these challenges, we propose a…

异质处理效应下工具变量方法的实用指南AI 解读

Instrumental variables (IV) methods are central to applied microeconomics. While classical approaches assume linear models with constant effects, recent literature has shifted toward the local average treatment effect (LATE) framework to accommodate heterogeneous treatment effects. This paper provides a practical guide to aligning empirical practice with recent theory. We first examine how different specifications with covariates lead to distinct weighted averages of…

通过高斯过程稳健、自适应地整合平台试验非同期数据AI 解读

A platform trial is an innovative clinical trial design that enables simultaneous and continuous evaluation of multiple treatments within a single master protocol. Existing robust methods restrict analyses to concurrently randomized participants due to concerns that including nonconcurrent data may introduce bias from temporal trends. However, this exclusion represents a missed opportunity to improve efficiency. We propose a Gaussian process framework for incorporating…

临床试验长期结局分位数处理效应的双重／去偏机器学习AI 解读

Long-term outcomes are often unavailable in randomized clinical trials, although short-term surrogate outcomes are commonly observed. External observational data may contain the long-term outcome, but causal comparisons based on such data alone are vulnerable to confounding. Existing surrogate-based data integration methods for long-term outcomes have focused primarily on average treatment effects. We study estimation of quantile treatment effects for long-term outcomes in…

序贯英式拍卖中估值分布的部分识别AI 解读

This paper extends the incomplete model of Haile and Tamer (2003) from static English auctions to sequential English auctions. Because bidders may wait for future opportunities, the static condition that bidders do not let rivals win at beatable prices need not hold. We replace it with a dynamic opportunity-cost restriction, yielding nonparametric valuation bounds without solving a dynamic equilibrium. Sharp bounds are also characterized. We propose a novel moment-condition…

将嵌套随机试验的条件平均处理效应推广至全部符合资格者AI 解读

Randomized controlled trials often enroll participants whose characteristics differ from those of a target population, which can limit the generalizability of the estimated treatment effects when effect modifiers differ across populations. While existing generalizability methods primarily focus on estimating the average treatment effect (ATE) in the target population, such summaries may obscure important heterogeneity that is relevant for clinical and policy decision-making.…

条件平均处理效应函数下水平集概率的非参数推断AI 解读

The average treatment effect can obscure important heterogeneity when individuals respond differently to a treatment. While the conditional average treatment effect (CATE) function captures such heterogeneity, it is difficult to communicate when it depends on many covariates. Sublevels sets of a multivariate CATE function are equally complicated objects, but the probability of a sublevel set of a CATE function is a single number with a simple interpretation as the proportion…

利用 TMLE 提高随机对照试验子组分析的效率AI 解读

Subgroup analyses within randomized controlled trials are often underpowered due to limited sample sizes. We address this challenge by leveraging trial participants outside the subgroup of interest to augment estimation within the subgroup. Specifically, we study two Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimators (TMLEs) that borrow information from non-subgroup participants within the same trial: a TMLE with pooled regression (TMLE-PR) and an Adaptive Targeted Maximum Likelihood…

存在网络溢出的交错双重差分：识别与估计AI 解读

This paper studies staggered difference-in-differences designs in which treated and comparison units can be exposed to other units' adoption. Using an exposure mapping specified by the researcher, we define realized and counterfactual exposure states and decompose the total effect into a switching effect of own adoption and a spillover effect under no own adoption. Conditional parallel trends identify the total and switching effects by matching, respectively, the…

检测阴性设计的敏感性分析AI 解读

The test-negative design has become popular for evaluating the effectiveness of post-licensure vaccines using observational data. In addition to its logistical convenience on data collection, the design is also believed to control for the differential health-care-seeking behavior between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, an important while often unmeasured confounder between the vaccination and infection. Hence, the design has been employed routinely to monitor…

因果多任务需求学习AI 解读

We study a canonical multi-task demand-learning problem motivated by retail pricing, where a firm seeks to estimate heterogeneous linear price-response functions across multiple decision contexts. Each context is described by rich covariates but exhibits limited price variation, motivating transfer learning across tasks. A central challenge in leveraging cross-task transfer is endogeneity: prices may be arbitrarily correlated with unobserved task-level demand determinants…

序贯网络博弈中的个体化处理分配AI 解读

Designing individualized allocation of treatments so as to maximize the equilibrium welfare of interacting agents has many policy-relevant applications. Focusing on sequential decision games of interacting agents, this paper develops a method to obtain optimal treatment assignment rules that maximize a social welfare criterion by evaluating stationary distributions of outcomes. Stationary distributions in sequential decision games are given by Gibbs distributions, which are…

因果森林纳入试验参与变量时的有限样本偏差—方差权衡AI 解读

Estimating conditional average treatment effects (CATE) from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and generalizing them to broader populations is essential for personalizing treatment rules but is complicated by selection bias due to trial participation and potentially high dimensional covariates. We evaluated finite sample bias variance tradeoff for Causal Forest based CATE estimation strategies to address the selection bias. Identification theory suggests unbiased CATE…

存在样本流失与补充样本的面板数据闭式估计与推断AI 解读

It has long been established that, if a panel dataset suffers from attrition, auxiliary (refreshment) sampling restores full identification under additional assumptions that still allow for nontrivial attrition mechanisms. Such identification results rely on implausible assumptions about the attrition process or lead to theoretically and computationally challenging estimation procedures. We propose an alternative identifying assumption that, despite its nonparametric nature,…

具有连续效果与实施终点的二型混合整群随机试验设计方法比较AI 解读

Hybrid type 2 studies are gaining popularity for their ability to assess both implementation and health outcomes as co-primary endpoints. Often conducted as cluster-randomized trials (CRTs), five design methods can validly power these studies: p-value adjustment methods, combined outcomes approach, single weighted 1-DF test, disjunctive 2-DF test, and conjunctive test. We compared these methods theoretically and numerically. Theoretical comparisons of power equations allowed…

边界断点设计的估计与推断：基于位置的方法AI 解读

Boundary discontinuity designs are used to learn about causal treatment effects along a continuous assignment boundary that splits units into control and treatment groups according to a bivariate location score. We analyze location-based local polynomial treatment effect estimators that directly employ the bivariate score of each unit. We develop pointwise and uniform estimation and inference methods for the \textit{Boundary Average Treatment Effect Curve} (BATEC), as well…