Double machine learning-based programme evaluation under unconfoundedness

MC Knaus - The Econometrics Journal, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This paper reviews, applies, and extends recently proposed methods based on double
machine learning (DML) with a focus on programme evaluation under unconfoundedness …

Debiased machine learning of conditional average treatment effects and other causal functions

V Semenova, V Chernozhukov - The Econometrics Journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This paper provides estimation and inference methods for the best linear predictor
(approximation) of a structural function, such as conditional average structural and treatment …

Estimation of conditional average treatment effects with high-dimensional data

Q Fan, YC Hsu, RP Lieli, Y Zhang - Journal of Business & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Given the unconfoundedness assumption, we propose new nonparametric estimators for the
reduced dimensional conditional average treatment effect (CATE) function. In the first stage …

Entropy balancing for continuous treatments

S Tübbicke - Journal of Econometric Methods, 2022 - degruyter.com
Interest in evaluating the effects of continuous treatments has been on the rise recently. To
facilitate the estimation of causal effects in this setting, the present paper introduces entropy …

Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects: Mutual information bounds and learning algorithms

X Guo, Y Zhang, J Wang… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) from observational studies is rising in
importance due to the widespread accumulation of data in many fields. Due to the selection …

Inference on heterogeneous treatment effects in high‐dimensional dynamic panels under weak dependence

V Semenova, M Goldman… - Quantitative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides estimation and inference methods for conditional average treatment
effects (CATE) characterized by a high‐dimensional parameter in both homogeneous cross …

Estimating identifiable causal effects through double machine learning

Y Jung, J Tian, E Bareinboim - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Identifying causal effects from observational data is a pervasive challenge found throughout
the empirical sciences. Very general methods have been developed to decide the …

Deep learning for individual heterogeneity: An automatic inference framework

MH Farrell, T Liang, S Misra - arxiv preprint arxiv:2010.14694, 2020 - arxiv.org
We develop methodology for estimation and inference using machine learning to enrich
economic models. Our framework takes a standard economic model and recasts the …

Mitigating adversarial vulnerability through causal parameter estimation by adversarial double machine learning

BK Lee, J Kim, YM Ro - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Adversarial examples derived from deliberately crafted perturbations on visual inputs can
easily harm decision process of deep neural networks. To prevent potential threats, various …

Effect or treatment heterogeneity? Policy evaluation with aggregated and disaggregated treatments

P Heiler, M Knaus - 2022 - JSTOR
The analysis of causal effects is at the heart of empirical research in economics, political
science, the biomedical sciences, and beyond. To evaluate and design policies …