SI 2024 Methods Lecture: New Developments in Experimental Design and Analysis
James M. Poterba, Organizer
July 25, 2024
Ballroom B
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA, Zoom
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Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments and Policy Learning Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Video |
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| 4:25 pm | Break | |
| 4:35 pm |
Interference and Spillovers in Randomized Experiments Guido Imbens, Stanford University and NBER Video |
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| 6:00 pm | Adjourn | |
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Background materials for first part: background 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). background 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. background 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. background 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). |
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