Causal inference in the social sciences

GW Imbens - Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Knowledge of causal effects is of great importance to decision makers in a wide variety of
settings. In many cases, however, these causal effects are not known to the decision makers …

A review of generalizability and transportability

I Degtiar, S Rose - Annual Review of Statistics and Its …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
When assessing causal effects, determining the target population to which the results are
intended to generalize is a critical decision. Randomized and observational studies each …

Optimal transport for treatment effect estimation

H Wang, J Fan, Z Chen, H Li, W Liu… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Estimating individual treatment effects from observational data is challenging due to
treatment selection bias. Prevalent methods mainly mitigate this issue by aligning different …

Estimation and inference of heterogeneous treatment effects using random forests

S Wager, S Athey - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Many scientific and engineering challenges—ranging from personalized medicine to
customized marketing recommendations—require an understanding of treatment effect …

GANITE: Estimation of individualized treatment effects using generative adversarial nets

J Yoon, J Jordon, M Van Der Schaar - International conference on …, 2018 - openreview.net
Estimating individualized treatment effects (ITE) is a challenging task due to the need for an
individual's potential outcomes to be learned from biased data and without having access to …

The econometrics of randomized experiments

S Athey, GW Imbens - Handbook of economic field experiments, 2017 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we present econometric and statistical methods for analyzing randomized
experiments. For basic experiments, we stress randomization-based inference as opposed …

Representation learning for treatment effect estimation from observational data

L Yao, S Li, Y Li, M Huai, J Gao… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Estimating individual treatment effect (ITE) is a challenging problem in causal inference, due
to the missing counterfactuals and the selection bias. Existing ITE estimation methods …

Recursive partitioning for heterogeneous causal effects

S Athey, G Imbens - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 - pnas.org
In this paper we propose methods for estimating heterogeneity in causal effects in
experimental and observational studies and for conducting hypothesis tests about the …

Beyond experiments

E Diener, R Northcott, MJ Zyphur… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
It is often claimed that only experiments can support strong causal inferences and therefore
they should be privileged in the behavioral sciences. We disagree. Overvaluing experiments …

Matching methods in practice: Three examples

GW Imbens - Journal of Human Resources, 2015 - jhr.uwpress.org
There is a large theoretical literature on methods for estimating causal effects under
unconfoundedness, exogeneity, or selection-on-observables type assumptions using …