Minimum Specification Perturbation: Robustness as Distance-to-Falsification in Causal Inference
最小设定扰动:以距证伪的距离衡量因果推断稳健性
Empirical causal claims depend on many analyst decisions, from selecting covariates to choosing estimators. Existing robustness tools summarize how results vary across these choices, but, to the best of our knowledge, do not answer: \textbf{How many analyst decisions must change to reach a specification, which is a set of choices, whose confidence interval (CI) contains zero?} We introduce \emph{Minimum Specification Perturbation (MSP)}, the smallest number of changes. MSP…