Research Spotlights
2015, Susan Athey, "The Benefits to Economics of Using Machine Learning Methodology"
Presenter
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Susan Athey of Stanford University and the NBER discusses the benefits to economics of using machine learning methodology to deal with heterogeneity, and the benefits to computer science of the social sciences' approach to causal inference at the 2015 Summer Institute Methods Lectures.