3 papers
stat.ME2020
Varying impacts of letters of recommendation on college admissions: Approximate balancing weights for subgroup effects in observational studies
Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller, Jesse Rothstein
In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants for freshman admission to submit letters of recommendation. W…
stat.ME2019
Synthetic Controls with Staggered Adoption
Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller, Jesse Rothstein
Staggered adoption of policies by different units at different times creates promising opportunities for observational causal inference. Estimation remains challenging, however, an…
stat.ME2018
The Augmented Synthetic Control Method
Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller, Jesse Rothstein
The synthetic control method (SCM) is a popular approach for estimating the impact of a treatment on a single unit in panel data settings. The "synthetic control" is a weighted ave…