Treatment Effect Risk: Bounds and Inference
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处理效应风险：界限与推断
- 研究问题
- 即使平均处理效应为正，如何评估个体处理效应最差尾部所承受的损失，而不把两组结果分布的低分位比较当作个体效应？
- 方法与思路
- 作者以个体处理效应分布的条件风险价值刻画风险，利用处理前协变量与条件平均处理效应推导界限，并进行去偏估计。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，文章给出由条件平均处理效应函数所确定的最紧界限，并构造估计和区间方法，展示法国求职辅导政策应用。
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- 应核对界限所使用的信息与识别条件、尾部概率的定义，以及机器学习或不一致辅助估计下去偏结论的适用要求。
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原文摘要
Since the average treatment effect (ATE) measures the change in social welfare, even if positive, there is a risk of negative effect on, say, some 10% of the population. Assessing such risk is difficult, however, because any one individual treatment effect (ITE) is never observed, so the 10% worst-affected cannot be identified, while distributional treatment effects only compare the first deciles within each treatment group, which does not correspond to any 10%-subpopulation. In this paper we consider how to nonetheless assess this important risk measure, formalized as the conditional value at risk (CVaR) of the ITE-distribution. We leverage the availability of pre-treatment covariates and characterize the tightest-possible upper and lower bounds on ITE-CVaR given by the covariate-conditional average treatment effect (CATE) function. We then proceed to study how to estimate these bounds efficiently from data and construct confidence intervals. This is challenging even in randomized experiments as it requires understanding the distribution of the unknown CATE function, which can be very complex if we use rich covariates so as to best control for heterogeneity. We develop a debiasing method that overcomes this and prove it enjoys favorable statistical properties even when CATE and other nuisances are estimated by black-box machine learning or even inconsistently. Studying a hypothetical change to French job-search counseling services, our bounds and inference demonstrate a small social benefit entails a negative impact on a substantial subpopulation.