Doubly robust uniform confidence band for the conditional average treatment effect function

Citation
Sokbae, Lee et al., Doubly robust uniform confidence band for the conditional average treatment effect function, Journal of applied econometrics , 32(7), 2017, pp. 1207-1225
ISSN journal
08837252
Volume
32
Issue
7
Year of publication
2017
Pages
1207 - 1225
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a doubly robust method to estimate the heterogeneity of the average treatment effect with respect to observed covariates of interest. We consider a situation where a large number of covariates are needed for identifying the average treatment effect but the covariates of interest for analyzing heterogeneity are of much lower dimension. Our proposed estimator is doubly robust and avoids the curse of dimensionality. We propose a uniform confidence band that is easy to compute, and we illustrate its usefulness via Monte Carlo experiments and an application to the effects of smoking on birth weights.