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Differentially Private Synthetic Control
Saeyoung Rho, Rachel Cummings, Vishal Misra
Synthetic control is a causal inference tool used to estimate the treatment effects of an intervention by creating synthetic counterfactual data. This approach combines measurement…
Bandwidth Allocation Games
Niloofar Bayat, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein
Internet providers often offer data plans that, for each user's monthly billing cycle, guarantee a fixed amount of data at high rates until a byte threshold is reached, at which po…
On the Assumptions of Synthetic Control Methods
Claudia Shi, Dhanya Sridhar, Vishal Misra +1
Synthetic control (SC) methods have been widely applied to estimate the causal effect of large-scale interventions, e.g., the state-wide effect of a change in policy. The idea of s…
Synthetic Control, Synthetic Interventions, and COVID-19 spread: Exploring the impact of lockdown measures and herd immunity
Niloofar Bayat, Cody Morrin, Yuheng Wang +1
The synthetic control method is an empirical methodology forcausal inference using observational data. By observing thespread of COVID-19 throughout the world, we analyze the datao…
Zero-Rating and Net Neutrality: Who Wins, Who Loses?
Niloofar Bayat, Richard Ma, Vishal Misra +1
An objective of network neutrality is that the design of regulations for the Internet will ensure that it remains a public, open platform where innovations can thrive. While there…
Down for Failure: Active Power Status Monitoring
Niloofar Bayat, Kunal Mahajan, Sam Denton +2
Despite society's strong dependence on electricity, power outages remain prevalent. Standard methods for directly measuring power availability are complex, often inaccurate, and ar…