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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.GN2024
Heterogeneous treatment effect estimation with high-dimensional data in public policy evaluation -- an application to the conditioning of cash transfers in Morocco using causal machine learning
Patrick Rehill, Nicholas Biddle
Causal machine learning methods can be used to search for treatment effect heterogeneity in high-dimensional datasets even where we lack a strong enough theoretical framework to se…