5 papers
Doctors and Nurses Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 infections: A cluster randomized controlled trial in 13 States
Emily Breza, Fatima Cody Stanford, Marcela Alsan +18
During the COVID-19 epidemic, many health professionals started using mass communication on social media to relay critical information and persuade individuals to adopt preventativ…
Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization
Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Suresh Dalpath +8
Policymakers often choose a policy bundle that is a combination of different interventions in different dosages. We develop a new technique -- treatment variant aggregation (TVA) -…
Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogenous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments, with an Application to Immunization in India
Victor Chernozhukov, Mert Demirer, Esther Duflo +1
We propose strategies to estimate and make inference on key features of heterogeneous effects in randomized experiments. These key features include best linear predictors of the ef…
Double/Debiased/Neyman Machine Learning of Treatment Effects
Victor Chernozhukov, Denis Chetverikov, Mert Demirer +3
Chernozhukov, Chetverikov, Demirer, Duflo, Hansen, and Newey (2016) provide a generic double/de-biased machine learning (DML) approach for obtaining valid inferential statements ab…
Double/Debiased Machine Learning for Treatment and Causal Parameters
Victor Chernozhukov, Denis Chetverikov, Mert Demirer +4
Most modern supervised statistical/machine learning (ML) methods are explicitly designed to solve prediction problems very well. Achieving this goal does not imply that these metho…