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1by Athey, Susan Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (03.02.2017)“...Machine-learning prediction methods have been extremely productive in applications ranging from medicine to allocating fire and health inspectors in cities...”
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2“...In this paper, we discuss recent developments in econometrics that we view as important for empirical researchers working on policy evaluation questions. We...”
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3“...We propose generalized random forests, a method for nonparametric statistical estimation based on random forests (Breiman [Mach. Learn. 45 (2001) 5–32]) that...”
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4“...As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an increasingly central role in tech...”
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5“...This paper constructs an efficient, budget-balanced, Bayesian incentive-compatible mechanism for a general dynamic environment with quasilinear payoffs in...”
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6“...In many areas, practitioners seek to use observational data to learn a treatment assignment policy that satisfies application‐specific constraints, such as...”
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7“...This article examines a model in which advertisers bid for "sponsored-link" positions on a search engine. The value advertisers derive from each position is...”
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8by Susan Athey Guido Imbens Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05.07.2016)“...In this paper we propose methods for estimating heterogeneity in causal effects in experimental and observational studies and for conducting hypothesis tests...”
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9“...We develop a model of advertising markets in an environment where consumers may switch (or “multi-home”) across publishers. Consumer switching generates...”
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10by Susan Athey Jonathan Levin Enrique Seira Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.02.2011)“...We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions. Using data from the U.S. Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic...”
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11“...Researchers often report estimates and standard errors for the object of interest (such as a treatment effect) based on a single specification of a statistical...”
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12by Susan Athey Published in Econometrica (01.07.2001)“...This paper analyzes a class of games of incomplete information where each agent has private information about her own type, and the types are drawn from an...”
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13“...Yuliy Sannikov is an extraordinary theorist who has developed methods that offer new insights in analyzing problems that had seemed well-studied and familiar:...”
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14“...This paper develops a generalization of the widely used difference-in-differences method for evaluating the effects of policy changes. We propose a model that...”
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15by Susan Athey Guido Imbens Thai Pham Stefan Wager Published in The American economic review (01.05.2017)“...There is a large literature on semiparametric estimation of average treatment effects under unconfounded treatment assignment in settings with a fixed number...”
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16by Susan Athey Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.02.2002)“...This paper analyzes monotone comparative statics predictions in several classes of stochastic optimization problems. The main results characterize necessary...”
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17“...We consider a dynamic Bertrand game in which prices are publicly observed and each firm receives a privately observed cost shock in each period. Although cost...”
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18by Abadie, Alberto Athey, Susan Imbens, Guido W Wooldridge, Jeffrey M Published in Econometrica (01.01.2020)“...Consider a researcher estimating the parameters of a regression function based on data for all 50 states in the United States or on data for all visits to a...”
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19“...We discuss the relevance of the recent machine learning (ML) literature for economics and econometrics. First we discuss the differences in goals, methods, and...”
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20by Athey, Susan Ellison, Glenn Published in Journal of economics & management strategy (Summer 2014)“...This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open‐source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and...”