3 papers
econ.EM2026
Improving on a Lottery: Efficient Estimation of Optimal Assignment Rules
Yue Fang, Geert Ridder, Haitian Xie
Scarce opportunities are often allocated by lotteries. We study how to improve such allocations by estimating optimal assignment rules that maximize welfare net of a Kullback--Leib…
econ.EM2025
Data-Driven Policy Learning for Continuous Treatments
Chunrong Ai, Yue Fang, Haitian Xie
This paper studies policy learning for continuous treatments from observational data. Continuous treatments present more significant challenges than discrete ones because populatio…
econ.EM2025
A Synthetic Business Cycle Approach to Counterfactual Analysis with Nonstationary Macroeconomic Data
Zhentao Shi, Jin Xi, Haitian Xie
This paper investigates the use of synthetic control methods for causal inference in macroeconomic settings when dealing with possibly nonstationary data. While the synthetic contr…