Difference-in-Differences under Bipartite Network Interference: A Framework for Quasi-Experimental Assessment of the Effects of Environmental Policies on Health
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二部网络干扰下的双重差分：环境政策健康效应的准实验评估
- 研究问题
- 当接受环保干预的电厂与观测健康结局的社区分离，且污染跨地区扩散时，如何用面板数据评估交错实施政策的健康效应？
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出二部网络干扰下的交错处理双重差分框架，通过数据重构与映射在干预单位层面分析，并解释为结局单位层面的影响。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，该方法避免任意定义社区处理状态；在 2003—2014 年脱硫装置应用中，发现对老年人冠心病住院总体有益的效果。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对电厂到社区的映射与效应定义、干扰下所需识别假设、交错处理比较组构造，以及健康效应向社区层面的解释。
- 阅读边界
- 这是 arXiv 预印本，同行评审或期刊接收未获核实；摘要未说明网络映射的具体构造、识别条件或健康效应的数值与不确定性。
原文摘要
Pollution from coal-fired power plants has been linked to substantial health and mortality burdens in the US. In recent decades, federal regulatory policies have spurred efforts to curb emissions through various actions, such as the installation of emissions control technologies on power plants. However, assessing the health impacts of these measures, particularly over longer periods of time, is complicated by several factors. First, the units that potentially receive the intervention (power plants) are disjoint from those on which outcomes are measured (communities), and second, pollution emitted from power plants disperses and affects geographically far-reaching areas. This creates a methodological challenge known as bipartite network interference (BNI). To our knowledge, no methods have been developed for conducting quasi-experimental studies with panel data in the BNI setting. In this study, motivated by the need for robust estimates of the total health impacts of power plant emissions control technologies in recent decades, we introduce a novel causal inference framework for difference-in-differences analysis under BNI with staggered treatment adoption. We explain the unique methodological challenges that arise in this setting and propose a solution via a data reconfiguration and mapping strategy. The proposed approach is advantageous because analysis is conducted at the intervention unit level, avoiding the need to arbitrarily define treatment status at the outcome unit level, but it permits interpretation of results at the more policy-relevant outcome unit level. Using this interference-aware approach, we investigate the impacts of installation of flue gas desulfurization scrubbers on coal-fired power plants on coronary heart disease hospitalizations among older Americans over the period 2003-2014, finding an overall beneficial effect in mitigating such disease outcomes.