Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments and Policy Learning
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
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Background materials for first part:

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Athey, Susan, Undral Byambadalai, Vitor Hadad, Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Weiwen Leung, and Joseph Jay Williams. "Contextual bandits in a survey experiment on charitable giving: Within-experiment outcomes versus policy learning." arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.12004 (2022).

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Offer-Westort, Molly, Leah R. Rosenzweig, and Susan Athey. "Battling the coronavirus ‘infodemic’among social media users in Kenya and Nigeria." Nature Human Behaviour 8, no. 5 (2024): 823-834.

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Xiong, Ruoxuan, Susan Athey, Mohsen Bayati, and Guido Imbens. "Optimal experimental design for staggered rollouts." Management Science (2023).

Kasy, Maximilian, and Anja Sautmann. "Adaptive treatment assignment in experiments for policy choice." Econometrica 89, no. 1 (2021): 113-132

Background materials for second part:

Bajari, Patrick, Brian Burdick, Guido W. Imbens, Lorenzo Masoero, James McQueen, Thomas S. Richardson, and Ido M. Rosen. "Experimental Design in Marketplaces." Statistical Science 38, no. 3 (2023): 458-476.

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Viviano, Davide, Lihua Lei, Guido Imbens, Brian Karrer, Okke Schrijvers, and Liang Shi. "Causal clustering: design of cluster experiments under network interference." arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.14983 (2023).