Inferring welfare maximizing treatment assignment under budget constraints

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 168-196

  Bhattacharya, Debopam ^a   Dupas, Pascaline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C14; C21

Indexed keywords

BANK ACCOUNTS; BUDGET CONSTRAINT; C14; C21; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIATES; CROSS VALIDATION; DUAL VALUE; EFFICIENT TREATMENT; FREQUENTIST; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLE DATA; SOCIAL WELFARE;

ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 84856337127     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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