Haitian Xie

Working Papers

• "Semiparametric Efficiency in Policy Learning with General Treatments," with Yue Fang, Geert Ridder.

• "Local Overidentification and Efficiency Gains in Modern Causal Inference and Data Combination," with Xiaohong Chen.

• "Efficient Difference-in-Differences and Event-Study Estimators," with Xiaohong Chen, Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna.

• "A Synthetic Business Cycle Approach to Counterfactual Analysis with Nonstationary Macroeconomic Data," with Zhentao Shi, Jin Xi. [code]

• "Difference-in-Differences Meets Synthetic Control: Doubly Robust Identification and Estimation," with Yixiao Sun, Yuhang Zhang.

Publications

• "Data-Driven Policy Learning for Continuous Treatments," with Chunrong Ai, Yue Fang. Journal of Econometrics, accepted. [code]

• "Model Selection for Multivalued-Treatment Policy Learning in Observational Studies," with Yue Fang, Jin Xi, (2025). Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 43(4), 897-909. 

• "On the Limitations of Data-Based Price Discrimination," with Ying Zhu, Denis Shishkin, (2025). Theoretical Economics, 20(1), 303-351. Extended abstract at EC '24: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.

• "Nonlinear and Nonseparable Structural Functions in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Continuous Treatment," (2024). Journal of Econometrics, 242(1), 105784. 

• "Efficient and Robust Estimation of the Generalized LATE Model," (2024). Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 42(3), 1053-1065. 

• "Uniform Convergence Results for the Local Linear Estimation of the Conditional Distribution," (2023). Statistics & Probability Letters, 201, 109886.

• "Strength in Numbers: Robust Mechanisms for Public Goods with Many Agents," with Jin Xi, (2023). Social Choice and Welfare, 61(3), 649-683.

• "Global Representation of the Conditional LATE Model: A Separability Result," with Yu-Chang Chen, (2022). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84(4), 789-798.

Teaching

• Causal Inference (PhD): 2024, 2025