Machine learning who to nudge: Causal vs predictive targeting in a field experiment on student financial aid renewal

2025/01/13 by Susan Athey, Niall Keleher, Jann Spiess · 1 voice
Decision Sciences · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research #Advanced Causal Inference Techniques #Media Influence and Politics

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105945

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Discussions

• Snap resharing an applied #causal paper... with a #CUNY setting? By Athey? Just gonna shoehorn the time to read this in somewhere: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105945 [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]