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20192025
most citedClose Enough? A Large-Scale Exploration of Non-Experimental Approaches to Advertising Measurement

25 citations · 25 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

econ.GN2025

Characterizing and Minimizing Divergent Delivery in Meta Advertising Experiments

Gordon Burtch, Robert Moakler, Brett R. Gordon +2

Many digital platforms offer advertisers experimentation tools like Meta's Lift and A/B tests to optimize their ad campaigns. Lift tests compare outcomes between users eligible to…

econ.EM2025

Amazon Ads Multi-Touch Attribution

Randall Lewis, Florian Zettelmeyer, Brett R. Gordon +5

Amazon's new Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) solution allows advertisers to measure how each touchpoint across the marketing funnel contributes to a conversion. This gives advertiser…

econ.EM2023

Predicted Incrementality by Experimentation (PIE) for Ad Measurement

Brett R. Gordon, Robert Moakler, Florian Zettelmeyer

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) provide the most credible estimates of advertising incrementality but are difficult to scale. We propose Predicted Incrementality by Experimenta…

econ.EM2023

Multicell experiments for marginal treatment effect estimation of digital ads

Caio Waisman, Brett R. Gordon

Randomized experiments with treatment and control groups are an important tool to measure the impacts of interventions. However, in experimental settings with one-sided noncomplian…

econ.EM2022★ 25 cited

Close Enough? A Large-Scale Exploration of Non-Experimental Approaches to Advertising Measurement

Brett R. Gordon, Robert Moakler, Florian Zettelmeyer

Despite their popularity, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are not always available for the purposes of advertising measurement. Non-experimental data is thus required. However,…

econ.GN2019

Inefficiencies in Digital Advertising Markets

Brett R Gordon, Kinshuk Jerath, Zsolt Katona +3

Digital advertising markets are growing and attracting increased scrutiny. This paper explores four market inefficiencies that remain poorly understood: ad effect measurement, fric…