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Exposure effects are not automatically useful for policymaking

Eric Auerbach, Jonathan Auerbach, Max Tabord-Meehan

arXiv 11 Jan 2024 · Econometrics

arXiv:2401.06264 · PDF · DOI · OpenAlex · Extracted main text

Abstract

We thank Savje (2023) for a thought-provoking article and appreciate the opportunity to share our perspective as social scientists. In his article, Savje recommends misspecified exposure effects as a way to avoid strong assumptions about interference when analyzing the results of an experiment. In this invited discussion, we highlight a limiation of Savje's recommendation: exposure effects are not generally useful for evaluating social policies without the strong assumptions that Savje seeks to avoid.

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1Aronow, P.M. & Samii, C (2017) Estimating average causal effects under general interference0.64422100%
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4Sävje, F (2023) Causal inference with misspecified exposure mappings: separating definitions and assumptions0.40511100%

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