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Causal Inference Under Unmeasured Confounding With Negative Controls: A Minimax Learning Approach
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We study the estimation of causal parameters when not all confounders are observed and instead negative controls are available. Recent work has shown how these can enable identification and efficient estimation via two so-called bridge functions. In this paper, we tackle the primary challenge to causal inference using negative controls: the identification and estimation of these bridge functions. Previous work has relied on completeness conditions on these functions to identify the causal parameters and required uniqueness assumptions in estimation, and they also focused on parametric estimation of bridge functions. Instead, we provide a new identification strategy that avoids the completeness condition. And, we provide new estimators for these functions based on minimax learning formulations. These estimators accommodate general function classes such as Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces and neural networks. We study finite-sample convergence results both for estimating bridge functions themselves and for the final estimation of the causal parameter under a variety of combinations of assumptions. We avoid uniqueness conditions on the bridge functions as much as possible.
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