Heterogeneous Responses to Continuous Treatments: A Cluster-Based Causal Framework
连续处理的异质性响应:基于聚类的因果框架
When treatments are non-randomly assigned, continuous, and yield heterogeneous effects at the same intensity, causal identification becomes particularly challenging. In such contexts, existing approaches often fail to provide policy-relevant estimates of the relationship between treatment intensity and outcomes, especially in the presence of limited common support. To fill this gap, we introduce the Clustered Dose-Response Function (Cl-DRF), a novel estimator designed to…