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経済統計ワークショップ/CFEEセミナー

日時 2025年7月8日(火)17:10-18:55
場所 本館38教室
講演者 太田悠太(慶應義塾大学)
演題 "Causal inference with auxiliary observations"
言語 英語
要旨 In the evaluation of social programs, it is often difficult to conduct randomized controlled experiments due to non-compliance; therefore the local average treatment effect (LATE) is commonly applied. However, the LATE identifies the average treatment effect only for a subpopulation known as compliers and requires the monotonicity assumption. Given these limitations of the LATE, this paper proposes a nonparametric strategy to identify the causal effects for larger populations (such as the ATT and ATE) and to remove the monotonicity assumption in the cases of non-compliance. Our strategy utilizes two types of auxiliary observations, one is an outcome before assignment and the other is a treatment before assignment. These observations do not require specially designed experiments, and are likely to be observed in baseline surveys of the standard experiment or panel data. We show the results for the random assignment and those of multiply robust representations in the case where the random assignment is violated. We then present details of the GMM estimation and testing methods which utilize over-identified restrictions. The proposed strategy is illustrated by empirical examples which revisit the studies by Thornton (2008), Gerber et al. (2009), and Beam (2016), as well as the data set from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment.
幹事 本田敏雄 [経済学研究科](t.honda[at]r.hit-u.ac.jp)