Susan Athey, Stanford University
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los AngelesEstimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Optimal Treatment Assignment Policies
This talk will review recently developed methods for estimating conditional average treatment effects and optimal treatment assignment policies in experimental and observational studies, including settings with unconfoundedness or instrumental variables. Multi-armed bandits for learning treatment assignment policies will also be considered.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Social Statistics