Fair and Robust Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Policy Learning

We propose a simple and general framework for nonparametric estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects under fairness constraints. Under standard regularity conditions, we show that the resulting estimators possess the double robustness property. We use this framework to characterize the trade-off between fairness and the maximum welfare achievable by the optimal policy. We evaluate the methods in a simulation study and illustrate them in a real-world case study. The authors would like to thank Youmi Suk for many helpful discussions. The proposed algorithm can be applied in R with the code provided in https://github. com/kwangho-joshua-kim/fair-robust-HTE .