Inference for Synthetic Controls via Refined Placebo Tests
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利用改进安慰剂检验进行合成控制推断
- 研究问题
- 在一个处理单位、少量对照单位的合成控制研究中，如何突破传统安慰剂检验参考分布分辨率不足的限制，同时保留有限样本错误率保证？
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出留二法推断程序，在均匀处理分配下建立有限样本第一类错误率保证，并扩展到非均匀分配和敏感性分析，比较不同效应大小下的功效。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，该程序在较广的样本量范围内保留错误率保证，并能在显著性水平低于样本量倒数时提供有用推断；较大效应下的经验功效更高。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对平均处理效应原假设的表述、均匀分配要求和适用样本量范围，以及留二法参考量的构造；非均匀分配下的保证需另行检查。
- 阅读边界
- 这是 arXiv 预印本，同行评审及期刊接收未核实。有限样本保证依赖分配机制，摘要未说明全部适用条件；经验功效优势也不能外推到所有效应大小。
原文摘要
The synthetic control method is often applied to problems with one treated unit and a small number of control units. A common inferential task in this setting is to test null hypotheses regarding the average treatment effect on the treated. Inference procedures that are justified asymptotically are often unsatisfactory due to (1) small sample sizes that render large-sample approximation fragile and (2) simplification of the estimation procedure that is implemented in practice. An alternative is permutation inference, which is related to a common diagnostic called the placebo test. It has provable Type-I error guarantees in finite samples without simplification of the method, when the treatment is uniformly assigned. Despite this robustness, the placebo test suffers from low resolution since the null distribution is constructed from only $N$ reference estimates, where $N$ is the sample size. This creates a barrier for statistical inference at a common level like $α= 0.05$, especially when $N$ is small. We propose a novel leave-two-out procedure that bypasses this issue, while still maintaining the same finite-sample Type-I error guarantee under uniform assignment for a wide range of $N$. Unlike the placebo test whose Type-I error always equals the theoretical upper bound, our procedure often achieves a lower unconditional Type-I error than theory suggests; this enables useful inference in the challenging regime when $α< 1/N$. Empirically, our procedure achieves a higher power when the effect size is reasonably large and a comparable power otherwise. We generalize our procedure to non-uniform assignments and show how to conduct sensitivity analysis. From a methodological perspective, our procedure can be viewed as a new type of randomization inference different from permutation or rank-based inference, which is particularly effective in small samples.