Abstract
This paper introduces a rule for policy selection in the presence of estimation uncertainty, explicitly accounting for estimation risk. The rule belongs to the class of risk-aware rules on the efficient decision frontier, characterized as policies offering maximal estimated welfare for a given level of estimation risk. Among this class, the proposed rule is chosen to provide a reporting guarantee, ensuring that the welfare delivered exceeds a threshold with a pre-specified confidence level. We apply this approach to the allocation of a limited budget among social programs using estimates of their marginal value of public funds and associated standard errors.
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