Identification of Long-Term Treatment Effects via Temporal Links, Observational, and Experimental Data
通过时间关联、观察与实验数据识别长期处理效应
Recent literature proposes combining short-term experimental and long-term observational data to provide alternatives to conventional observational studies for the identification of long-term average treatment effects (LTEs). This paper re-examines the identification problem and uncovers that assumptions restricting temporal link functions -- relationships between short-term and mean long-term potential outcomes -- are central in this context. The experimental data serve to…