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| author | Higbee, Samuel |
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| contents | I study the problem of a decision maker choosing a policy which allocates treatment to a heterogeneous population on the basis of experimental data that includes only a subset of possible treatment values. The effects of new treatments are partially identified by shape restrictions on treatment response. Policies are compared according to the minimax regret criterion, and I show that the empirical analog of the population decision problem has a tractable linear- and integer-programming formulation. I prove the maximum regret of the estimated policy converges to the lowest possible maximum regret at a rate which is the maximum of N^-1/2 and the rate at which conditional average treatment effects are estimated in the experimental data. In an application to designing targeted subsidies for electrical grid connections in rural Kenya, I find that nearly the entire population should be given a treatment not implemented in the experiment, reducing maximum regret by over 60% compared to the policy that restricts to the treatments implemented in the experiment. |
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| spellingShingle | Policy Learning with New Treatments Higbee, Samuel Econometrics I study the problem of a decision maker choosing a policy which allocates treatment to a heterogeneous population on the basis of experimental data that includes only a subset of possible treatment values. The effects of new treatments are partially identified by shape restrictions on treatment response. Policies are compared according to the minimax regret criterion, and I show that the empirical analog of the population decision problem has a tractable linear- and integer-programming formulation. I prove the maximum regret of the estimated policy converges to the lowest possible maximum regret at a rate which is the maximum of N^-1/2 and the rate at which conditional average treatment effects are estimated in the experimental data. In an application to designing targeted subsidies for electrical grid connections in rural Kenya, I find that nearly the entire population should be given a treatment not implemented in the experiment, reducing maximum regret by over 60% compared to the policy that restricts to the treatments implemented in the experiment. |
| title | Policy Learning with New Treatments |
| topic | Econometrics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.04703 |