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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Princeton :
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2005.
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| Series: | The Econometric and Tinbergen Institutes Lectures.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Utilitarian Treatment of Heterogeneous Populations
- 1.1 Studying Treatment Response to Inform Treatment Choice
- 1.2 The Planning Problem
- 1.3 Practices that Limit the Usefulness of Research on Treatment Response
- 2. The Selection Problem
- 2.1 Treatment Choice Using the Empirical Evidence Alone
- 2.2 Monotone Treatment Response
- 2.3 Exclusion Restrictions
- 3. Treatment Using Experimental Data
- 3.1 The Expected Welfare (Risk) of a Statistical Treatment Rule
- 3.2 Using a Randomized Experiment to Evaluate an Innovation
- 3.3 Using Covariate Information with Data from a Randomized Experiment
- 4. The Selection Problem with Sample Data
- 4.1 Sample-Analog Rules Using the Empirical Evidence Alone
- References