Outcome Modeling in Design-Based Inference for Spatial Settings
空间场景下设计型推断中的结果建模
In the face of spatial interference, researchers are often interested in estimating treatment effects at specific points located in space. Wang et al. (2025) and Pollmann (2023) provide design-based frameworks for estimating spillover effects on points located across a range of distances from interventions. Although these frameworks are design-based, we show their proposed estimands rely on outcomes that are directly unobservable and therefore, require outcome modeling. When…