3 papers
econ.GN2026
Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation
Mert Demirer, John J. Horton, Nicole Immorlica +2
Production is a sequence of steps that can be executed (1) manually, (2) augmented with AI, or (3) fully automated within contiguous AI-executed steps called ''chains.'' Firms opti…
econ.EM2025
Comment on "Sequential validation of treatment heterogeneity" and "Comment on generic machine learning inference on heterogeneous treatment effects in randomized experiments"
Victor Chernozhukov, Mert Demirer, Esther Duflo +1
We warmly thank Kosuke Imai, Michael Lingzhi Li, and Stefan Wager for their gracious and insightful comments. We are particularly encouraged that both pieces recognize the importan…
stat.ML2024
Double/Debiased Machine Learning for Treatment and Causal Parameters
Victor Chernozhukov, Denis Chetverikov, Mert Demirer +4
Most modern supervised statistical/machine learning (ML) methods are explicitly designed to solve prediction problems very well. Achieving this goal does not imply that these metho…