Generalized Kernel Ridge Regression for Causal Inference with Missing-at-Random Sample Selection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05277v1
• Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 17:10:49 GMT
• Title: Generalized Kernel Ridge Regression for Causal Inference with Missing-at-Random Sample Selection
• Authors: Rahul Singh
• Abstract summary: I propose kernel ridge regression estimators for nonparametric dose response curves and semiparametric treatment effects. For the discrete treatment case, I prove root-n consistency, Gaussian approximation, and semiparametric efficiency.
• Score: 3.398662563413433
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: I propose kernel ridge regression estimators for nonparametric dose response curves and semiparametric treatment effects in the setting where an analyst has access to a selected sample rather than a random sample; only for select observations, the outcome is observed. I assume selection is as good as random conditional on treatment and a sufficiently rich set of observed covariates, where the covariates are allowed to cause treatment or be caused by treatment -- an extension of missingness-at-random (MAR). I propose estimators of means, increments, and distributions of counterfactual outcomes with closed form solutions in terms of kernel matrix operations, allowing treatment and covariates to be discrete or continuous, and low, high, or infinite dimensional. For the continuous treatment case, I prove uniform consistency with finite sample rates. For the discrete treatment case, I prove root-n consistency, Gaussian approximation, and semiparametric efficiency.

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