Treatment selection

NPR Unbroken Brain from July 2016


Alas, there is more heterogeneity than one case report signals.

For some people, the tough approach is needed.

This is can be approached as a treatment selection problem for which there are quantitative approaches:

This article by Manski is a useful starting point for some, but you may wish to start with more elementary problem set-ups as in the Wooldridge text or in this short summer course:

http://econ.msu.edu/estimate/

http://econ.msu.edu/estimate/registration.php

Wooldridge: Sixth edition: 

Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach