NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MATRIX COMPLETION METHODS FOR CAUSAL PANEL DATA MODELS

By Susan Athey, Mohsen Bayati, Nikolay Doudchenko, Guido W. Imbens, Khashayar Khosravi. 2018

Subfields: Statistics and Probability, Causal Inference & Discovery

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Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation (2018, background): “Recent strands of the literature extend synthetic control estimators using matrix completion techniques (see Amjad et al., 2017; Athey et al., 2017) and propose sampling-base inferential methods (Hahn and Shi, 2017).”
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes (2019, methodology): “A number of methods have been developed for inference in settings like ours, including two-way fixed effects models, interactive fixed effects, the synthetic control method, and matrix completion methods (Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller, 2010; Doudchenko and Imbens, 2016; Xu, 2017; Athey et al., 201”
The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research (2020, methodology): “Interestingly, the GSC method has been demonstrated to be a special case of the matrix completion estimator (Athey et al. 2018).”
Conformal inference of counterfactuals and individual treatment effects (2020, methodology): “We further estimate the conditional quantiles in three different ways: (1) via quantile random forest [Athey et al., 2019] by using the grf package [Tibshirani et al., 2019a], (2) via quantile gradient boosting by using the gbm package [Greenwell et al., 2019], and (3) via the prediction posterior q”
The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics (2018, methodology): “For example, Athey et al. (2017c) examine the impact of Google’s shutdown of Google News in Spain on the types of news consumers read.”
The Augmented Synthetic Control Method (2018, methodology): “See Athey et al. (2018) for analogous results on balancing weights in high dimensional cross-sectional settings.”