Ying-Ying Lee
address: 3151 Social Science Plaza, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-5100
Associate professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
email: yingying.lee@uci.edu
Working papers:
Nonparametric Doubly Robust Identification of Causal Effects of a Continuous Treatment using Discrete Instruments (Oct 2023), with Yingying Dong. arxiv.org2310.18504 (pdf)
Double Debiased Machine Learning Nonparametric Inference with Continuous Treatments (Sep 2023), with Kyle Colangelo. arXiv:2004.03036 (pdf).
Code and dataset at Github. The first version was circulated as Lee (February 2019), “Double machine learning nonparametric inference on continuous treatment effects.” (December 2019 cemmap working paper CWP72/19)
Partial Mean Processes with Generated Regressors: Continuous Treatment Effects and Nonseparable Models (2018). (arXiv)(SSRN) Working paper (2015) (pdf)
Published papers:
Testing Monotonicity of Mean Potential Outcomes in a Continuous Treatment with High-dimensional Data (2023), with Yu-Chin Hsu, Martin Huber, and Chu-An Liu, accepted at the Review of Economics and Statistics. (pdf)(Replication data)
Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Continuous Treatment, with Yingying Dong and Michael Guo, Journal of the American Statistical Association. (2023) 118:541, 208-221. (pdf) Supplemental Appendix (pdf)
Nonparametric Weighted Average Quantile Derivative, Econometric Theory (2022) 38, 497-535. (pdf)(SSRN)
Multivalued Treatments and Decomposition Analysis: An application to the WIA Program, with Wallice Ao and Sebastian Calonico, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2021) 39 (1), 358-371. (pdf)(SSRN)
Direct and Indirect Effects of Continuous Treatments Based on Generalized Propensity Score Weighting, with Yu-Chin Hsu, Martin Huber, and Layal Lettry, Journal of Applied Econometrics (2020) 35 (7), 814-840. (pdf) (R implementation: medweightcont) (data)
Applied Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice with Interval-data on Income, with Debopam Bhattacharya, Journal of Econometrics (2019) 211 (2), 361-387. (pdf)(SSRN)
Partial Effects in Binary Response Models using a Special Regressor, with Hsueh-Hsiang Li, Economics Letters (2018) 169, 15-19. Supplemental Appendix. Stata code. (SSRN)
Efficient Propensity Score Regression Estimators of Multivalued Treatment Effects for the Treated, Journal of Econometrics (2018) 204 (2), 207-222. (SSRN)
Interpretation and Semiparametric Efficiency in Quantile Regression under Misspecification, Econometrics (2016) 4(1) 2. (pdf)