Inequality Sensitive Optimal Treatment Assignment
The egalitarian equivalent, $ee$, of a societal distribution of outcomes with mean $m$ is the outcome level such that the evaluator is indifferent between the distribution of outcomes and a society in which everyone obtains an outcome of $ee$. For an inequality averse evaluator, $ee < m$. In this paper, I extend the optimal treatment choice framework in Manski (2024) to the case where the welfare evaluation is made using egalitarian equivalent measures, and derive optimal treatment rules for the Bayesian, maximin and minimax regret inequality averse evaluators. I illustrate how the methodology operates in the context of the JobCorps education and training program for disadvantaged youth (Schochet, Burghardt, and McConnell 2008) and in Meager (2022)'s Bayesian meta analysis of the microcredit literature.
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