Stochastic treatment choice with empirical welfare updating

T Kitagawa, H Lopez, J Rowley - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01537, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes a novel method to estimate individualised treatment assignment rules.
The method is designed to find rules that are stochastic, reflecting uncertainty in estimation …

[PDF][PDF] Statistical inference for treatment assignment policies

Y Rai - Unpublished Manuscript, 2018 - econ.cuhk.edu.hk
In this paper, I study the statistical inference problem for treatment assignment policies. In
typical applications, individuals with different characteristics are expected to differ in their …

Estimation of Optimal Dynamic Treatment Assignment Rules under Policy Constraints

S Sakaguchi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05031, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper studies statistical decisions for dynamic treatment assignment problems. Many
policies involve dynamics in their treatment assignments where treatments are sequentially …

Statistical Treatment Rules under Social Interaction

S Han, J Owusu, Y Shin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.09077, 2022 - arxiv.org
In this paper we study treatment assignment rules in the presence of social interaction. We
construct an analytical framework under the anonymous interaction assumption, where the …

Individualized Treatment Allocations with Distributional Welfare

Y Cui, S Han - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.15878, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we explore optimal treatment allocation policies that target distributional
welfare. Most literature on treatment choice has considered utilitarian welfare based on the …

Model selection for treatment choice: Penalized welfare maximization

E Mbakop, M Tabord‐Meehan - Econometrica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper studies a penalized statistical decision rule for the treatment assignment
problem. Consider the setting of a utilitarian policy maker who must use sample data to …

Orthogonal policy learning under ambiguity

R d'Adamo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10904, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper studies the problem of estimating individualized treatment rules when treatment
effects are partially identified, as it is often the case with observational data. By drawing …

PAC-Bayesian Treatment Allocation Under Budget Constraints

DF Pellatt - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09007, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper considers the estimation of treatment assignment rules when the policy maker
faces a general budget or resource constraint. Utilizing the PAC-Bayesian framework, we …

Treatment allocation with strategic agents

E Munro - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
There is increasing interest in allocating treatments based on observed individual
characteristics: examples include targeted marketing, individualized credit offers, and …

Bandit Algorithms for Policy Learning: Methods, Implementation, and Welfare-performance

T Kitagawa, J Rowley - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00379, 2024 - arxiv.org
Static supervised learning-in which experimental data serves as a training sample for the
estimation of an optimal treatment assignment policy-is a commonly assumed framework of …