3 papers
econ.EM2024
Temporal Aggregation for the Synthetic Control Method
Liyang Sun, Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller
The synthetic control method (SCM) is a popular approach for estimating the impact of a treatment on a single unit with panel data. Two challenges arise with higher frequency data…
cs.CL2023
Text-Transport: Toward Learning Causal Effects of Natural Language
Victoria Lin, Louis-Philippe Morency, Eli Ben-Michael
As language technologies gain prominence in real-world settings, it is important to understand how changes to language affect reader perceptions. This can be formalized as the caus…
stat.ME2023
Approximate Balancing Weights for Clustered Observational Study Designs
Luke Keele, Eli Ben-Michael, Lindsay Page
In a clustered observational study, a treatment is assigned to groups and all units within the group are exposed to the treatment. We develop a new method for statistical adjustmen…