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序贯非单调缺失下的双重稳健 GMM 估计量AI 解读

We study moment-based estimation with two sequentially collected variables subject to non-monotone missingness. The commonly used Missing at Random (MAR) assumption requiring all missingness mechanisms to depend on the same fully observed covariates often fails in such cases. We introduce a sequential MAR assumption that allows asymmetric missingness mechanisms across stages. Based on this assumption, we construct an Augmented Inverse-Probability-Weighted GMM (AIPW-GMM)…

rd2d：边界断点设计中的因果推断软件AI 解读

Boundary Discontinuity (BD) designs are used in empirical research to learn about causal treatment effects along a continuous assignment boundary defined by a bivariate score. These designs are also known as multi-score regression discontinuity (RD) designs, and include geographic RD designs as a prominent example. This article introduces \pkg{rd2d}, a statistical software package for \proglang{R}, \proglang{Python}, and \proglang{Stata} that implements local polynomial…

凸成对差分估计量的稳健推断AI 解读

This paper develops distribution theory and bootstrap-based inference methods for a broad class of convex pairwise difference estimators. These estimators minimize a kernel-weighted convex-in-parameter function over observation pairs with similar covariates, where the similarity is governed by a localization (bandwidth) parameter. While classical results establish asymptotic normality under restrictive bandwidth conditions, we show that valid Gaussian and bootstrap-based…