Econometrics for Public Policy: Sampling, Estimation, Decision, and Applications

Projektinformationen

EPP

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 715940

DOI 10.3030/715940

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 31 Januar 2017

Startdatum 1 Februar 2017

Enddatum 31 Januar 2022

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 1 291 064,00

EU-Beitrag € 1 291 064,00

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

Ziel

One of the ultimate goals of economics is to inform a policy that improves welfare. Despite that the vast amount of empirical works in economics aims to achieve this goal, the current state of the art in econometrics is silent about concrete recommendation for how to estimate the welfare maximizing policy. This project addresses statistically optimal and practically useful ways to learn the welfare-maximizing policy from data by developing novel econometric frameworks, sampling design, and estimation approaches that can be applied to a wide range of policy design problems in reality.

Development of econometric methods for optimal empirical policy design proceeds by answering the following open questions. First, given a sampling process, how do we define optimal estimation for the welfare-maximizing policy? Second, what estimation method achieves this statistical optimality? Third, how do we solve policy decision problem when the sampling process only set-identifies the social welfare criterion? Fourth, how can we integrate the sampling step and estimation step to develop a package of optimal sampling and optimal estimation procedures?

I divide the project into the following four parts. Each part is motivated by important empirical applications and has methodological challenges related to these four questions.

1) Estimation of treatment assignment policy

2) Estimation of optimal policy in other public policy applications

3) Policy design with set-identified social welfare

4) Sampling design for empirical policy design

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• social sciences › political sciences › political policies › public policies
• social sciences › economics and business › economics › econometrics

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-2016-STG - ERC Starting Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2016-STG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 291 064,00
• Adresse: GOWER STREET ; WC1E 6BT London ; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Camden and City of London
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 291 064,00

Begünstigte (1)

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Vereinigtes Königreich

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 291 064,00
• Adresse: GOWER STREET ; WC1E 6BT London
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Camden and City of London
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 291 064,00