Automatic Debiased Machine Learning for Dynamic Treatment Effects and General Nested Functionals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13887v5
• Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:00:45 GMT
• Title: Automatic Debiased Machine Learning for Dynamic Treatment Effects and General Nested Functionals
• Authors: Victor Chernozhukov, Whitney Newey, Rahul Singh, Vasilis Syrgkanis
• Abstract summary: We extend the idea of automated debiased machine learning to the dynamic treatment regime and more generally to nested functionals. We show that the multiply robust formula for the dynamic treatment regime with discrete treatments can be re-stated in terms of a Riesz representer characterization of nested mean regressions.
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• Abstract: We extend the idea of automated debiased machine learning to the dynamic treatment regime and more generally to nested functionals. We show that the multiply robust formula for the dynamic treatment regime with discrete treatments can be re-stated in terms of a recursive Riesz representer characterization of nested mean regressions. We then apply a recursive Riesz representer estimation learning algorithm that estimates de-biasing corrections without the need to characterize how the correction terms look like, such as for instance, products of inverse probability weighting terms, as is done in prior work on doubly robust estimation in the dynamic regime. Our approach defines a sequence of loss minimization problems, whose minimizers are the mulitpliers of the de-biasing correction, hence circumventing the need for solving auxiliary propensity models and directly optimizing for the mean squared error of the target de-biasing correction. We provide further applications of our approach to estimation of dynamic discrete choice models and estimation of long-term effects with surrogates.

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