2 papers
econ.GN2020
Synthetic Data Generation for Economists
Allison Koenecke, Hal Varian
As more tech companies engage in rigorous economic analyses, we are confronted with a data problem: in-house papers cannot be replicated due to use of sensitive, proprietary, or pr…
stat.ME2018
Optimizing the tie-breaker regression discontinuity design
Art B. Owen, Hal Varian
Motivated by customer loyalty plans and scholarship programs, we study tie-breaker designs which are hybrids of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and regression discontinuity des…