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On Multiple Robustness of Proximal Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Yuanshan Gao, Yang Bai, Yifan Cui
Dynamic treatment regimes are sequential decision rules that adapt treatment according to individual time-varying characteristics and outcomes to achieve optimal effects, with appl…
Proximal Inference for Indirect and Intervening Effects in Population Interventions
Yang Bai, Yifan Cui, Baoluo Sun
Unmeasured confounding, unethical exposure, and ill-defined interventions pose significant challenges to evaluating policy-relevant mediation estimands in medicine and public healt…
Policy Learning with Distributional Welfare
Yifan Cui, Sukjin Han
In this paper, we explore optimal treatment allocation policies that target distributional welfare. Most literature on treatment choice has considered utilitarian welfare based on…
A Semiparametric Instrumented Difference-in-Differences Approach to Policy Learning
Pan Zhao, Yifan Cui
Recently, there has been a surge in methodological development for the difference-in-differences (DiD) approach to evaluate causal effects. Standard methods in the literature rely…