Exposure effects are not automatically useful for policymaking

Eric Auerbach, Jonathan Auerbach and Max Tabord-Meehan

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Abstract: We thank Savje (2023) for a thought-provoking article and appreciate the opportunity to share our perspective as social scientists. In his article, Savje recommends misspecified exposure effects as a way to avoid strong assumptions about interference when analyzing the results of an experiment. In this invited discussion, we highlight a limiation of Savje's recommendation: exposure effects are not generally useful for evaluating social policies without the strong assumptions that Savje seeks to avoid.

Date: 2024-01, Revised 2024-01
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