Estimating Continuous Treatment Effects in Panel Data using Machine Learning with a Climate Application
利用机器学习估计面板数据连续处理效应:气候应用
Economists often estimate continuous treatment effects in panel data using linear two-way fixed effects models (TWFE). When the treatment-outcome relationship is nonlinear, TWFE is misspecifed and potentially biased for the average partial derivative (APD). We develop an automatic double/de-biased machine learning (ADML) estimator that is consistent for the population APD while allowing additive unit fixed effects, nonlinearities, and high dimensional heterogeneity. We prove…