Dynamic covariate balancing: estimating treatment effects over time

03/01/2021

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by   Davide Viviano, et al.

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This paper discusses the problem of estimation and inference on time-varying treatments. We propose a method for inference on treatment histories, by introducing a dynamic covariate balancing method. Our approach allows for (i) treatments to propagate arbitrarily over time; (ii) non-stationarity and heterogeneity of treatment effects; (iii) high-dimensional covariates, and (iv) unknown propensity score functions. We study the asymptotic properties of the estimator, and we showcase the parametric convergence rate of the proposed procedure. We illustrate in simulations and an empirical application the advantage of the method over state-of-the-art competitors.