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Heterogeneous Treatment and Spillover Effects under Clustered Network Interference
Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi, Costanza Tortù, Laura Forastiere
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The bulk of causal inference studies rule out the presence of interference between units. However, in many real-world scenarios, units are interconnected by social, physical, or virtual ties, and the effect of the treatment can spill from one unit to other connected individuals in the network. In this paper, we develop a machine learning method that uses tree-based algorithms and a Horvitz-Thompson estimator to assess the heterogeneity of treatment and spillover effects with respect to individual, neighborhood, and network characteristics in the context of clustered networks and neighborhood interference within clusters. The proposed Network Causal Tree (NCT) algorithm has several advantages. First, it allows the investigation of the treatment effect heterogeneity, avoiding potential bias due to the presence of interference. Second, understanding the heterogeneity of both treatment and spillover effects can guide policy-makers in scaling up interventions, designing targeting strategies, and increasing cost-effectiveness. We investigate the performance of our NCT method using a Monte Carlo simulation study, and we illustrate its application to assess the heterogeneous effects of information sessions on the uptake of a new weather insurance policy in rural China.
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