Aggregate Bayesian Causal Forests: The ABCs of Flexible Causal Inference for Hierarchically Structured Data

Dan R. C. Thal, Lauren V. Forrow, Erin R. Lipman +2

This paper introduces aggregate Bayesian Causal Forests (aBCF), a new Bayesian model for causal inference using aggregated data. Aggregated data are common in policy evaluations wh…