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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Treatment effect heterogeneity"”.
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Innovative Methods for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity & Calibration
Treatment effect heterogeneity, which pertains to the identification of subgroups that have varyingresponses to the same treatment, is an increasingly important topic for personalized medicine and for validating the robustness of a novel treatment. Virtual Twins is an interpretable and flexible …
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Causal inference for complex data: randomization inference for treatment effect heterogeneity, network outcomes, and subgroup specific effects
… method extends inference for the ``attributable effect'', the total of the difference of outcomes if the treatment group had instead been assigned to the control condition, to count and continuous data using a fast approximation algorithm. Alternative approaches are limited to binary data, …
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Essays in public health and early education
… impact of promotions on heart disease, and the effects of light trucks on traffic fatalities. The first chapter examines the long-term effects of preschool interventions. Several influential experiments - Abecedarian, Perry, and Early Training - have convinced many economists that preschool …
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Essays on the economics of education
… The chapter investigates the causal effect of converting to an academy on assessment outcomes, and on entry-year intake composition. Unlike existing evidence focused on academies formed from failing secondary schools, no evidence is found of a converter academy effect on attainment …
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Three essays on the adoption and impacts of improved maize varieties in Ethiopia
… essay estimates poverty impacts. Field-level treatment effects on yield and cost changes with adoption are estimated using instrumental variable techniques, with treatment effect heterogeneity fully accounted for in marginal treatment effect estimation. A backward derivation procedure is then …
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Modifications of Q-learning to Optimize Dynamic Treatment Regimes
… the construction and analysis of dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs). There exists a comprehensive body of literature on various statistical methods to analyze data collected from such trials and estimate the optimal DTR for an individual subject, among which Q-learning with linear regression …
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Investing in Clinical Trials for Older Adults: The Value and Challenges of Older Adult-Specific Clinical Trials
Conducting clinical trials for older adults can address the long-standing issue of the underrepresentation of older adults and the lack of clinical evidence for them. Examining the challenges and the value of such trials could facilitate discussion among trial sponsors on the investment in and the …
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Essays on Labor Market Institutions
… chapter (joint with Sean Wang), we study the effect of private-sector unionization on establishment employment and survival. Specifically, we analyze National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) union elections from 1981 to 2005 using administrative Census data on the universe of establishments in …
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Three Essays on the Analysis of Firms' Behaviors Under Staggered Treatment Adoption
… three essays on firms' behaviors under staggered treatment adoption. The first essay draws information from a micro-lender and a credit bureau to identify the causal effects of small loans on the financial health of a group of small U.S. business owners. To achieve this, we exploit temporal …
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Three essays on the economics of energy efficiency and conservation
… of policy changes, interventions, or general ""treatments."" Specifically, I focus on estimating treatment effect heterogeneity in event studies with staggered adoption: panel data settings where observational units experience treatment at different points in time. I propose using highly …
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Analysis based on incomplete data
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01