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20182023
most citedThe Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot

267 citations · 287 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SE2023★ 267 cited

The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot

Sida Peng, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Peter Cihon +1

Generative AI tools hold promise to increase human productivity. This paper presents results from a controlled experiment with GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer. Recruited soft…

stat.AP2022★ 2 cited

Communication network dynamics in a large organizational hierarchy

Nathaniel Josephs, Sida Peng, Forrest W. Crawford

Most businesses impose a supervisory hierarchy on employees to facilitate management, decision-making, and collaboration, yet routine inter-employee communication patterns within w…

econ.EM2020

Doubly Robust Semiparametric Difference-in-Differences Estimators with High-Dimensional Data

Yang Ning, Sida Peng, Jing Tao

This paper proposes a doubly robust two-stage semiparametric difference-in-difference estimator for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects with high-dimensional data. Our new e…

stat.ME2019★ 1 cited

Regression Discontinuity Design under Self-selection

Sida Peng, Yang Ning

In Regression Discontinuity (RD) design, self-selection leads to different distributions of covariates on two sides of the policy intervention, which essentially violates the conti…

econ.EM2019

Heterogeneous Endogenous Effects in Networks

Sida Peng

This paper proposes a new method to identify leaders and followers in a network. Prior works use spatial autoregression models (SARs) which implicitly assume that each individual i…

stat.ME2018★ 17 cited

Robust Estimation of Causal Effects via High-Dimensional Covariate Balancing Propensity Score

Yang Ning, Sida Peng, Kosuke Imai

In this paper, we propose a robust method to estimate the average treatment effects in observational studies when the number of potential confounders is possibly much greater than…