2 papers
econ.EM2025
Fast Learning of Optimal Policy Trees
James Cussens, Julia Hatamyar, Vishalie Shah +1
We develop and implement a version of the popular "policytree" method (Athey and Wager, 2021) using discrete optimisation techniques. We test the performance of our algorithm in fi…
econ.GN2025
Exploring the heterogeneous impacts of Indonesia's conditional cash transfer scheme (PKH) on maternal health care utilisation using instrumental causal forests
Vishalie Shah, Julia Hatamyar, Taufik Hidayat +1
This paper uses instrumental causal forests, a novel machine learning method, to explore the treatment effect heterogeneity of Indonesia's conditional cash transfer scheme on mater…