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以 α 期望福利为目标的政策学习AI 解读

This paper proposes an optimal policy that targets the average welfare of the worst-off $α$-fraction of the post-treatment outcome distribution. We refer to this policy as the $α$-Expected Welfare Maximization ($α$-EWM) rule, where $α\in (0,1]$ denotes the size of the subpopulation of interest. The $α$-EWM rule interpolates between the expected welfare ($α=1$) and the Rawlsian welfare ($α\rightarrow 0$). For $α\in (0,1)$, an $α$-EWM rule can be interpreted as a…

估计长期处理效应的替代指标指数法：敏感性分析AI 解读

This paper develops a sensitivity analysis of the surrogacy assumption for the surrogate index approach in Athey et al. [2025b]. We introduce "Weighted Surrogate Indices (WSIs)," the analog of the surrogate index under the surrogacy assumption. We show that under comparability, the ATE on WSI identifies the ATE on the long-term outcome when a copula of the treatment and the long-term outcome conditional on baseline covariates and surrogates is known. When the copula is…

多评分断点回归设计中的森林方法AI 解读

We discuss estimation and inference of conditional treatment effects in regression discontinuity (RD) designs with multiple scores. In addition to local linear regressions and the minimax-optimal estimator more recently proposed by Imbens and Wager (2019), we argue that two variants of random forests, honest regression forests and local linear forests, should be added to the toolkit of applied researchers working with multivariate RD designs; their validity follows from…