Adaptive field experiments and multi-armed bandits

Africa Summer School in Econometrics 2024, Abidjan

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Lecture slides

  1. How to run an adaptive field experiment (applied motivation)
    Slides
  2. Multi-armed bandits (mathematical theory)
    Slides
  3. Implementing and simulating bandits in Python (computational implementation)
    Jupyter notebook, Html version of notebook
  4. Adaptive maximization of social welfare (my own research, combining welfare economics and bandits)
    Slides

Readings

Further readings on online learning, bandits, and reinforcement learning

Active.zip