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一般政策干预的无条件效应

Unconditional Effects of General Policy Interventions

Julian Martinez-Iriarte, Gabriel Montes-Rojas, Yixiao Sun

AI总结:

本文研究包含位置-尺度移位与同步移位的一般政策干预的无条件效应,提出半参数估计方法并验证其统计性质,最终应用于教育回报与孕期吸烟影响的实证分析。

摘要:

本文研究一般政策干预的无条件效应,该类干预包含位置-尺度移位和同步移位作为特例。位置-尺度移位用于研究一类反事实政策,这类政策不仅旨在改变协变量的均值或位置,还旨在改变其离散程度或尺度。同步移位指两个或多个协变量的移位同时发生的情形,例如,一个协变量的移位会以一定速率被另一个协变量的移位所补偿。若不考虑这些可能的尺度移位或同步移位,将导致对潜在政策作用于目标结果变量的效应评估出现偏差。本文采用简单的半参数估计量对无条件政策参数进行估计,并研究了这些估计量的渐近性质。通过蒙特卡洛模拟考察了估计量的有限样本表现。文中将所提出的方法应用于明瑟方程(Mincer equation),分别研究受教育年限变化对工资的影响,以及孕期吸烟对出生体重的影响。

英文摘要:

This paper studies the unconditional effects of a general policy intervention, which includes location-scale shifts and simultaneous shifts as special cases. The location-scale shift is intended to study a counterfactual policy aimed at changing not only the mean or location of a covariate but also its dispersion or scale. The simultaneous shift refers to the situation where shifts in two or more covariates take place simultaneously. For example, a shift in one covariate is compensated at a certain rate by a shift in another covariate. Not accounting for these possible scale or simultaneous shifts will result in an incorrect assessment of the potential policy effects on an outcome variable of interest. The unconditional policy parameters are estimated with simple semiparametric estimators, for which asymptotic properties are studied. Monte Carlo simulations are implemented to study their finite sample performances. The proposed approach is applied to a Mincer equation to study the effects of changing years of education on wages and to study the effect of smoking during pregnancy on birth weight.

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