Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response

Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response

Economists have long sought to learn the effect of a "treatment" on some outcome of interest, just as doctors do with their patients. A central practical objective of research on treatment response is to provide decision makers with information useful in choosing treatments. Often the deci...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manski, Charles F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Series:The Econometric and Tinbergen Institutes Lectures.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Statistical methods.
Social choice.
Estimation theory.
Estimation theory
Social choice
Social sciences > Statistical methods
"Objective Function.
Bayes Rules.
Binary Covariates.
Bounding Expected Welfare.
Concave Monotonicity.
Covariate Information.
Empirical Success Rules.
Hoeffding theorem.
Hypothesis Testing.
Maximin Criterion.
Nonutilitarian Objective Functions.
Optimal Treatment Rule.
Semi-Monotone Response.
Sentencing.
Social Interactions.
Untenable Assumptions.
conditional empirical success.
external validity.
instrumental variable.
quasi-optimal".
shrinkage estimators.
variable selection procedures.
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