2 papers
stat.ME2026
The Confounder Trap: Treatment-Encoding Representations in Causal Inference with Text
Marie Neubrander, Graham Tierney, Alexander Volfovsky
Estimating causal effects of linguistic properties from observational text is difficult because the same document can contain both the treatment of interest and the non-treatment t…
cs.SI2026
Can Platform Design Encourage Curiosity? Evidence from an Independent Social Media Experiment
Marie Neubrander, Markus Reiter-Haas, Ben Rochford +4
Social media platforms are often criticized for fostering antisocial behavior rather than prosocial behavior. Yet, testing interventions to encourage prosocial dispositions, such a…