Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response

Charles F. Manski is Board of Trustees Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He is the author of four books, including "Partial Identification of Probability Distributions" and "Identification Problems in the Social Sciences".

"The book's strength lies in its complete presentation, up to this point, of the research in this area, and identification of the central areas of the problem (selection and sample data) that make the problem challenging. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, the book unites relevant research in a coherent and logical way that will serve interested researchers well."--Ben Alamar, Journal of the American Statistical Association

• Preface vii Chapter 1: Utilitarian Treatment of Heterogeneous Populations 1 1.1 Studying Treatment Response to Inform Treatment Choice 1 1.2 The Planning Problem 3 1.3 Practices that Limit the Usefulness of Research on Treatment Response 11 Chapter 2: The Selection Problem 19 2.1 Treatment Choice Using the Empirical Evidence Alone 20 2.2 Monotone Treatment Response 37 2.3 Exclusion Restrictions 49 Chapter 3: Treatment Using Experimental Data 56 3.1 The Expected Welfare (Risk) of a Statistical Treatment Rule 56 3.2 Using a Randomized Experiment to Evaluate an Innovation 62 3.3 Using Covariate Information with Data from a Randomized Experiment 74 Chapter 4: The Selection Problem with Sample Data 108 4.1 Sample-Analog Rules Using the Empirical Evidence Alone 109 References 115