Inference After Ranking with Applications to Economic Mobility
排序后的统计推断及其在经济流动性研究中的应用
This paper considers the problem of inference after ranking. In our setting, we are interested in any population whose rank according to some random quantity, such as an estimated treatment effect, a measure of value-added, or benefit (net of cost), falls in a pre-specified range of values. As such, this framework generalizes the inference on winners setting previously considered in Andrews et al. (2023), in which a winner is understood to be the single population whose rank…