Bayesian shrinkage priors for penalized synthetic control estimators in the presence of spillovers
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存在溢出效应时惩罚合成控制估计的贝叶斯收缩先验
- 研究问题
- 当邻近控制地区受到政策溢出影响时，如何在保留相似控制单位的信息与减少反事实污染之间平衡偏差和方差？
- 方法与思路
- 作者在贝叶斯合成控制中引入效用驱动的收缩先验，结合协变量相似度与空间距离，降低潜在溢出污染单位的权重。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要提出对传统收缩惩罚的扩展，通过不同溢出水平的模拟评估方法，并应用于费城饮料税对不同饮料销售的影响。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对空间接近与溢出风险之间的假设、效用函数和先验设定，以及控制权重、不确定性与政策效应如何计算。
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- 这是 arXiv 预印本，同行评审及期刊接收未核实；摘要未说明因果识别条件、模拟数值或税收效应，不能确认收缩消除了偏差。
原文摘要
Synthetic control (SC) methods are widely used to estimate the effects of policy interventions, especially those targeting specific geographic regions, referred to as units. These methods construct a weighted combination of untreated units, forming a "synthetic" control that approximates the counterfactual outcomes of the treated unit had the intervention not occurred. Although neighboring areas are often selected as controls due to their similarity in observed and unobserved characteristics, their proximity can lead to spillover effects, where the intervention indirectly impacts control units, potentially biasing causal estimates. To address this challenge, we introduce a Bayesian SC framework with utility-based shrinkage priors. Our approach extends traditional penalization techniques (i.e., horseshoe, spike-and-slab) by incorporating a utility function that combines covariate similarity and spatial distance. This provides a metric that guides the data-driven selection of control units based on their relevance and spillover risk, which is assumed to increase with spatial proximity. Rather than outright excluding neighboring units, the method balances bias and variance by reducing the importance of potentially contaminated controls by spillovers. We evaluate the proposed method through simulation studies at varying spillover levels and apply it to assess the impact of Philadelphia's 2017 beverage tax on the sales of sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages in mass merchandise stores.