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From Quantum Codes to Gravity: A Journey of Gravitizing Quantum Mechanics
ChunJun Cao
In this note, I review a recent approach to quantum gravity that "gravitizes" quantum mechanics by emerging geometry and gravity from complex quantum states. Drawing further insigh…
On the Fairness of Machine-Assisted Human Decisions
Talia Gillis, Bryce McLaughlin, Jann Spiess
When machine-learning algorithms are used in high-stakes decisions, we want to ensure that their deployment leads to fair and equitable outcomes. This concern has motivated a fast-…
Unpacking the Black Box: Regulating Algorithmic Decisions
Laura Blattner, Scott Nelson, Jann Spiess
What should regulators of complex algorithms regulate? We propose a model of oversight over 'black-box' algorithms used in high-stakes applications such as lending, medical testing…
Improving Inference from Simple Instruments through Compliance Estimation
Stephen Coussens, Jann Spiess
Instrumental variables (IV) regression is widely used to estimate causal treatment effects in settings where receipt of treatment is not fully random, but there exists an instrumen…
Revisiting Event Study Designs: Robust and Efficient Estimation
Kirill Borusyak, Xavier Jaravel, Jann Spiess
We develop a framework for difference-in-differences designs with staggered treatment adoption and heterogeneous causal effects. We show that conventional regression-based estimato…
Finding Subgroups with Significant Treatment Effects
Jann Spiess, Vasilis Syrgkanis, Victor Yaneng Wang
Researchers often run resource-intensive randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to estimate the causal effects of interventions on outcomes of interest. Yet these outcomes are often n…
A Design-Based Perspective on Synthetic Control Methods
Lea Bottmer, Guido Imbens, Jann Spiess +1
Since their introduction in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), Synthetic Control (SC) methods have quickly become one of the leading methods for estimating causal effects in observatio…