2024 Methods Lecture, Susan Athey, "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments and Policy Learning"
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Athey, Susan, Undral Byambadalai, Vitor Hadad, Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Weiwen Leung, and Joseph Jay Williams. "Contextual bandits in a survey experiment on charitable giving: Within-experiment outcomes versus policy learning." arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.12004 (2022).
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Offer-Westort, Molly, Leah R. Rosenzweig, and Susan Athey. "Battling the coronavirus ‘infodemic’among social media users in Kenya and Nigeria." Nature Human Behaviour 8, no. 5 (2024): 823-834.
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Xiong, Ruoxuan, Susan Athey, Mohsen Bayati, and Guido Imbens. "Optimal experimental design for staggered rollouts." Management Science (2023).
Kasy, Maximilian, and Anja Sautmann. "Adaptive treatment assignment in experiments for policy choice." Econometrica 89, no. 1 (2021): 113-132
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #G-2023-19633, the National Science Foundation grant #2314841 , and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation grant #20241113
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