TEA-Time: Transporting Effects Across Time

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07018v1
• Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:34:13 GMT
• Title: TEA-Time: Transporting Effects Across Time
• Abstract summary: We develop a framework for temporal transportation: extrapolating treatment effects to time periods where no experiment was conducted.<n>We provide two identification strategies -- one using replicated trials comparing the same treatments at different times, another using common treatment arms observed across time.
• Score: 44.54570296032634
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Treatment effects estimated from randomized controlled trials are local not only to the study population but also to the time at which the trial was conducted. We develop a framework for temporal transportation: extrapolating treatment effects to time periods where no experiment was conducted. We target the transported average treatment effect (TATE) and show that under a separable temporal effects assumption, the TATE decomposes into an observed average treatment effect and a temporal ratio. We provide two identification strategies -- one using replicated trials comparing the same treatments at different times, another using common treatment arms observed across time -- and develop doubly robust, semiparametrically efficient estimators for each. Monte Carlo simulations confirm that both estimators achieve nominal coverage, with the common arm strategy yielding substantial efficiency gains when its stronger assumptions hold. We apply our methods to A/B tests from the Upworthy Research Archive, demonstrating that the two strategies exhibit a variance-bias tradeoff: the common arm approach offers greater precision but may incur bias when treatments interact heterogeneously with temporal factors.

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