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Area of Science:

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  • Causal Inference
  • Econometrics

Background:

  • Identification challenges are prevalent in causal modeling, especially with observational data limitations.
  • Partially identified models occur when the parameter's true value is known, but the observable data only narrows it to a region within plausible values.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review Bayesian inference in partially identified models.
  • To analyze the large-sample limit of the posterior distribution and its support (the identification region).
  • To investigate the utility of the posterior's shape for inferring parameter plausibility within the identification region.

Main Methods:

  • Review of Bayesian inference techniques for partially identified models.
  • Asymptotic analysis of posterior distributions for target parameters.
  • Investigation of the posterior distribution's shape in various partially identified model settings.

Main Results:

  • The large-sample limit of the posterior distribution has the identification region as its support.
  • The shape of this limiting distribution offers information on the relative plausibility of values within the identification region.

Conclusions:

  • Bayesian inference in partially identified models provides richer information than non-Bayesian methods by utilizing the shape of the posterior distribution.
  • The shape of the limiting posterior distribution is a valuable tool for understanding parameter uncertainty in partially identified models.