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  1. The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely

    Article • The Review of Economic Studies, September 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Susan Athey

  2. Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the United States and Ghana

    Article • Management Science, August 2025, INFORMS

    Susan Athey

  3. Estimating wage disparities using foundation models

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Susan Athey

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

    Article • Journal of Econometrics, May 2025, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  5. Targeted Treatment Assignment Using Data from Randomized Experiments with Noncompliance

    Article • AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  6. Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2025, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  7. Qini Curves for Multi-Armed Treatment Rules

    Article • Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Susan Athey

  8. On synthetic difference-in-differences and related estimation methods in Stata

    Article • The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, December 2024, SAGE Publications

    Susan Athey

  9. The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division 2023–2024

    Article • Review of Industrial Organization, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Susan Athey

  10. Health insurance might be more beneficial to health than average effects suggest

    Article • BMJ, September 2024, BMJ

    Susan Athey

  11. Heterogeneous effects of Medicaid coverage on cardiovascular risk factors: secondary analysis of randomized controlled trial

    Article • BMJ, September 2024, BMJ

    Susan Athey

  12. Battling the coronavirus ‘infodemic’ among social media users in Kenya and Nigeria

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Susan Athey

  13. Using Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks for the design of Monte Carlo simulations

    Article • Journal of Econometrics, March 2024, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  14. Optimal Experimental Design for Staggered Rollouts

    Article • Management Science, December 2023, INFORMS

    Susan Athey

  15. Policy Learning with Adaptively Collected Data

    Article • Management Science, October 2023, INFORMS

    Susan Athey

  16. Can personalized digital counseling improve consumer search for modern contraceptive methods?

    Article • Science Advances, October 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Susan Athey

  17. Federated causal inference in heterogeneous observational data

    Article • Statistics in Medicine, August 2023, Wiley

    Susan Athey

  18. Semi-parametric estimation of treatment effects in randomised experiments

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B Statistical Methodology, July 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Susan Athey

  19. Machine-learning-based high-benefit approach versus conventional high-risk approach in blood pressure management

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, April 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Susan Athey

  20. Digital public health interventions at scale: The impact of social media advertising on beliefs and outcomes related to COVID vaccines

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Susan Athey

  21. Offline Multi-Action Policy Learning: Generalization and Optimization

    Article • Operations Research, January 2023, INFORMS

    Susan Athey

  22. Expanding capacity for vaccines against Covid-19 and future pandemics: a review of economic issues

    Article • Oxford Review of Economic Policy, December 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Susan Athey

  23. When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, October 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Susan Athey

  24. Uncovering interpretable potential confounders in electronic medical records

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Susan Athey

  25. Stable learning establishes some common ground between causal inference and machine learning

    Article • Nature Machine Intelligence, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Susan Athey

  26. Design-based analysis in Difference-In-Differences settings with staggered adoption

    Article • Journal of Econometrics, January 2022, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  27. Correction to: Counterfactual inference for consumer choice across many product categories

    Article • Quantitative Marketing and Economics, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Susan Athey

  28. Synthetic Difference-in-Differences

    Article • American Economic Review, December 2021, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  29. Counterfactual inference for consumer choice across many product categories

    Article • Quantitative Marketing and Economics, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Susan Athey

  30. Estimating experienced racial segregation in US cities using large-scale GPS data

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Susan Athey

  31. Off-Policy Evaluation via Adaptive Weighting with Data from Contextual Bandits

    Article • August 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruohan Zhan, Susan Athey

  32. Ten Rules for Conducting Retrospective Pharmacoepidemiological Analyses: Example COVID-19 Study

    Article • Frontiers in Pharmacology, July 2021, Frontiers

    Susan Athey

  33. Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science

    Article • Nature, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Susan Athey, Sendhil Mullainathan

  34. Alpha-1 adrenergic receptor antagonists to prevent hyperinflammation and death from lower respiratory tract infection

    Article • eLife, June 2021, eLife

    Susan Athey

  35. Matrix Completion Methods for Causal Panel Data Models

    Article • Journal of the American Statistical Association, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Susan Athey

  36. Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability

    Article • AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2021, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  37. Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Susan Athey

  38. The Association Between Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists and In-Hospital Mortality From COVID-19

    Article • Frontiers in Medicine, March 2021, Frontiers

    Susan Athey

  39. Market design to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine supply

    Article • Science, March 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Susan Athey

  40. Association of α1-Blocker Receipt With 30-Day Mortality and Risk of Intensive Care Unit Admission Among Adults Hospitalized With Influenza or Pneumonia in Denmark

    Article • JAMA Network Open, February 2021, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Susan Athey

  41. Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries

    Article • Science Advances, February 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Susan Athey

  42. Policy Learning With Observational Data

    Article • Econometrica, January 2021, The Econometric Society

    Susan Athey

  43. Platform Annexation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  44. The Association Between Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists and In-Hospital Mortality from COVID-19

    Article • December 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Susan Athey

  45. Local Linear Forests

    Article • Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Susan Athey

  46. Peaches, lemons, and cookies: Designing auction markets with dispersed information

    Article • Games and Economic Behavior, November 2020, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  47. Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities

    Article • Science, August 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Susan Athey

  48. Preventing cytokine storm syndrome in COVID-19 using α-1 adrenergic receptor antagonists

    Article • Journal of Clinical Investigation, May 2020, American Society for Clinical Investigation

    Susan Athey

  49. The Allocation of Decision Authority to Human and Artificial Intelligence

    Article • AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  50. SHOPPER: A probabilistic model of consumer choice with substitutes and complements

    Article • The Annals of Applied Statistics, March 2020, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

    Susan Athey

  51. Sampling‐Based versus Design‐Based Uncertainty in Regression Analysis

    Article • Econometrica, January 2020, The Econometric Society

    Susan Athey

  52. Experienced Segregation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  53. Comment on: “The Blessings of Multiple Causes” by Yixin Wang and David M. Blei

    Article • Journal of the American Statistical Association, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Susan Athey

  54. Machine Learning Methods That Economists Should Know About

    Article • Annual Review of Economics, August 2019, Annual Reviews

    Susan Athey

  55. Generalized random forests

    Article • The Annals of Statistics, April 2019, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

    Susan Athey

  56. Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, February 2019, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  57. The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics

    Article • January 2019, University of Chicago Press

    Susan Athey

  58. Stable Prediction across Unknown Environments

    Article • July 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Susan Athey

  59. Estimating Heterogeneous Consumer Preferences for Restaurants and Travel Time Using Mobile Location Data

    Article • AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2018, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  60. The value of information in monotone decision problems

    Article • Research in Economics, March 2018, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  61. Approximate Residual Balancing: Debiased Inference of Average Treatment Effects in High Dimensions

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B Statistical Methodology, February 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Susan Athey

  62. Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  63. Exactp-Values for Network Interference

    Article • Journal of the American Statistical Association, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Susan Athey

  64. Estimating Average Treatment Effects: Supplementary Analyses and Remaining Challenges

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2017, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  65. The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, May 2017, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  66. Yuliy Sannikov: Winner of the 2016 Clark Medal

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, May 2017, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  67. Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests

    Article • Journal of the American Statistical Association, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Susan Athey

  68. The Impact of Consumer Multi-homing on Advertising Markets and Media Competition

    Article • Management Science, December 2016, INFORMS

    Prof Joshua S Gans, Susan Athey

  69. Recursive partitioning for heterogeneous causal effects

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Susan Athey

  70. A Theory of Community Formation and Social Hierarchy

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  71. Machine Learning and Causal Inference for Policy Evaluation

    Article • August 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Susan Athey

  72. A Measure of Robustness to Misspecification

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2015, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  73. Chapter 15 - The Nature and Incidence of Software Piracy

    Article • January 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Susan Athey

  74. Dynamics of Open Source Movements

    Article • Journal of Economics &amp Management Strategy, April 2014, Wiley

    Susan Athey

  75. Set-Asides and Subsidies in Auctions

    Article • American Economic Journal Microeconomics, February 2013, American Economic Association

    Susan Athey

  76. An Efficient Dynamic Mechanism

    Article • Econometrica, January 2013, The Econometric Society

    Susan Athey

  77. Dynamics of Open Source Movements

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  78. Chapter 60 Nonparametric Approaches to Auctions

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  79. The Optimal Degree of Discretion in Monetary Policy

    Article • International Finance Discussion Paper, April 2004, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    Susan Athey

  80. Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-In-Differences Models

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2002, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  81. Organizational Design: Decision Rights and Incentive Contracts

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2001, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  82. Identification Of Standard Auction Models

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2000, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  83. Optimal Collusion with Private Information

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2000, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  84. Innovation and the Emergence of Market Dominance

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2000, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  85. Information And Competition In U.S. Forest Service Timber Auctions

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2000, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  86. The Value Of Information In Monotone Decision Problems

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1999, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  87. Mentoring and Diversity

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1998, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  88. Collusion and Price Rigidity

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 1998, Elsevier

    Susan Athey

  89. Economics: Applying Math to Real-World Problems

    Article • Imagine, January 1998, Project Muse

    Susan Athey

  90. Empirical Models of Auctions

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Susan Athey