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 …

Machine learning methods that economists should know about

S Athey, GW Imbens - Annual Review of Economics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We discuss the relevance of the recent machine learning (ML) literature for economics and
econometrics. First we discuss the differences in goals, methods, and settings between the …

Causal inference about the effects of interventions from observational studies in medical journals

IJ Dahabreh, K Bibbins-Domingo - Jama, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Many medical journals, includingJAMA, restrict the use of causal language to the
reporting of randomized clinical trials. Although well-conducted randomized clinical trials …

Combining human expertise with artificial intelligence: Experimental evidence from radiology

N Agarwal, A Moehring, P Rajpurkar, T Salz - 2023 - nber.org
ABSTRACT Full automation using Artificial Intelligence (AI) predictions may not be optimal if
humans can access contextual information. We study human-AI collaboration using an …

[BOK][B] A practical introduction to regression discontinuity designs: Extensions

MD Cattaneo, N Idrobo, R Titiunik - 2024 - cambridge.org
In this Element, which continues our discussion in Foundations, the authors provide an
accessible and practical guide for the analysis and interpretation of Regression …

Deep neural networks for estimation and inference

MH Farrell, T Liang, S Misra - Econometrica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We study deep neural networks and their use in semiparametric inference. We establish
novel nonasymptotic high probability bounds for deep feedforward neural nets. These …

Matrix completion methods for causal panel data models

S Athey, M Bayati, N Doudchenko… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we study methods for estimating causal effects in settings with panel data,
where some units are exposed to a treatment during some periods and the goal is …

Simple local polynomial density estimators

MD Cattaneo, M Jansson, X Ma - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article introduces an intuitive and easy-to-implement nonparametric density estimator
based on local polynomial techniques. The estimator is fully boundary adaptive and …

Patterns of implicit and explicit attitudes: IV. Change and stability from 2007 to 2020

TES Charlesworth, MR Banaji - Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Using more than 7.1 million implicit and explicit attitude tests drawn from US participants to
the Project Implicit website, we examined long-term trends across 14 years (2007–2020) …

[HTML][HTML] Impact evaluation using Difference-in-Differences

A Fredriksson, GM Oliveira - RAUSP Management Journal, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
Purpose This paper aims to present the Difference-in-Differences (DiD) method in an
accessible language to a broad research audience from a variety of management-related …