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econ.EM2026

Coping with Inductive Risk When Theories are Underdetermined: Decision Making with Partial Identification

Charles F. Manski

Controversy about the significance of underdetermination of theories persists in the philosophy and conduct of science. The issue has practical import when research is used to info…

econ.EM2025

Prediction with Differential Covariate Classification: Illustrated by Covariate Classification in Medical Risk Assessment

Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Charles F. Manski, John Mullahy

A common practice in evidence-based decision-making uses estimates of conditional probabilities P(y|x) obtained from research studies to predict outcomes y on the basis of observed…

econ.EM2024

The Subtlety of Optimal Paternalism in a Population with Bounded Rationality

Charles F. Manski, Eytan Sheshinski

We study the subtlety of optimal paternalism when a utilitarian planner has the power to design a discrete choice set for a heterogeneous population with bounded rationality. We fi…

econ.EM2022

Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up

Charles F. Manski

Incomplete observability of data generates an identification problem. There is no panacea for missing data. What one can learn about a population parameter depends on the assumptio…

econ.EM2022

Minimax-Regret Climate Policy with Deep Uncertainty in Climate Modeling and Intergenerational Discounting

Stephen J. DeCanio, Charles F. Manski, Alan H. Sanstad

Integrated assessment models have become the primary tools for comparing climate policies that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Policy comparisons have often been performed…

econ.EM2021

Probabilistic Prediction for Binary Treatment Choice: with focus on personalized medicine

Charles F. Manski

This paper extends my research applying statistical decision theory to treatment choice with sample data, using maximum regret to evaluate the performance of treatment rules. The s…