Distributional counterfactual analysis in high-dimensional setup
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高维环境下的分布反事实分析
- 研究问题
- 在只有一个或少数处理单位、候选对照较多的面板中，如何恢复未干预时的完整结果分布，并对干预后的处理效应进行推断？
- 方法与思路
- 作者用干预前数据，通过惩罚回归估计未干预状态的完整条件分位数函数，再据此重建反事实分布、构造区间和无效应检验。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称建立了分位数上一致有效的非渐近误差界及覆盖概率界，并提出临界值可模拟的准枢轴检验，支持逐期和同时推断。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对对照单位与处理单位之间的建模限制、时间依赖条件、惩罚参数选择，以及分位数一致误差界如何转化为处理效应覆盖保证。
- 阅读边界
- 仅依据所给出版社摘要版本；具体识别条件和覆盖保证的适用范围未说明，准枢轴分布对干预后样本规模的依赖表述也需核对。
原文摘要
In the context of treatment effect estimation, this paper proposes a new methodology to recover the counterfactual distribution when there is a single (or a few) treated unit and possibly a high-dimensional number of potential controls observed in a panel structure. The methodology accommodates, albeit does not require, the number of units to be larger than the number of time periods (high-dimensional setup). As opposed to model only the conditional mean, we propose to model the entire conditional quantile function (CQF) in the absence of intervention and estimate it using the pre-intervention period using a penalized regression. We derive non-asymptotic bounds for the estimated CQF valid uniformly over the quantiles, allowing the practitioner to re-construct the entire contractual distribution. Moreover, we bound the probability coverage of this estimated CQF which can be used to construct valid confidence intervals for the (possibly random) treatment effect for every post-intervention period or simultaneously. We also propose a new hypothesis test for the sharp null of no-effect based on the Lp norm of deviation of the estimated CQF to the population one. Interestingly, the null distribution is quasi-pivotal in the sense that it only depends on the estimated CQF, Lp norm, and the number of post-intervention periods, but not on the size of the post-intervention period. For that reason, critical values can then be easily simulated. We illustrate the methodology is by revisiting the empirical study in Acemoglu et al. (2016).