3 papers
econ.GN2026
A rapid evaluation of Australia's COVID-era apprentice wage subsidy programs
Peter Bowers, Patrick Rehill, Ethan Slaven
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Australian Government launched two programs to incentivise new apprentices to start and complete apprenticeships -- the Boosting…
econ.EM2024
How do applied researchers use the Causal Forest? A methodological review of a method
Patrick Rehill
This methodological review examines the use of the causal forest method by applied researchers across 133 peer-reviewed papers. It shows that the emerging best practice relies heav…
econ.EM2024
Distilling interpretable causal trees from causal forests
Patrick Rehill
Machine learning methods for estimating treatment effect heterogeneity promise greater flexibility than existing methods that test a few pre-specified hypotheses. However, one prob…