Dynamic Local Average Treatment Effects

arXiv:2405.01463v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We consider Dynamic Treatment Regimes (DTRs) with one sided non-compliance that arise in applications such as digital recommendations and adaptive medical trials. These are settings where decision makers encourage individuals to take treatments over time, but adapt encouragements based on previous encouragements, treatments, states, and outcomes. Importantly, individuals may choose to (not) comply with a treatment recommendation, whenever it is made available to them, based on unobserved confounding factors. We provide non-parametric identification, estimation, and …

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