Presentations
The risk function of regularized empirical risk minimization estimators, tuned using cross-validation
February 2025, Oxford
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“Fair inequality” – Some comments
December 2024, UCL
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Optimal Pre-Analysis Plans: Statistical Decisions Subject to Implementability
October 2023, Yale (Cowles Foundation)
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Economics and Machine Learning: What can they teach each other?
September 2023, Berlin
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Recording
Employing the unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a guaranteed job program
March 2023, IHS
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Recording
The political economy of AI: Who controls the means of prediction?
February 2023, Oxford series “What economists really do”
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Recording
April 2023, MIT SERC Symposium
Recording
Democratic control of the means of prediction
October 2022, Oxford Ethics in AI Colloquium
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Recording
Adaptive maximization of social welfare in theory and practice
October 2022, Harvard and MIT
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Discussion of:
Increasing the uptake of long-acting reversible contraceptives among adolescents and young women in Cameroon
July 2022, NBER Summer Institute
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Adaptive maximization of social welfare
June 2022, ENSAI Artificial Intelligence and Economic Decision Making conference, Rennes
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Recording at ENSAI 2022
Rationalizing Pre-Analysis Plans: Statistical Decisions Subject to Implementability
January 2022
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Recording for BITSS 2022
Employing the unemployed of Marienthal:
Evaluation of a guaranteed job program
January 2022, Marie Jahoda memorial conference
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How to run an adaptive field experiment
December 2021, Field Days conference
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Machine learning for policy
November 2021, deputy ministers of Pakistan
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Learning by matching
September 2021, EAAMO conference
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Social foundations for statistics and machine learning
London, September 2021
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Piloting new social safety nets: Evaluation of a job guarantee program and of a basic income program
Vienna, June 2021
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Recording
Statistical decision theory cannot justify
randomization or pre-registration for experiments.
Sorbonne, Philosophy of Science Workshop, June 2021
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Philosophical questions about machine learning theory:
Online Learning, Bandit Algorithms, and Reinforcement Learning
Harvard Philosophy of Causality Workshop, March 2021
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Fairness, equality, and power in algorithmic decision making
Oxford Law School, March 2021
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Recording for Informs 2021
Probably approximately correct learning and adversarial online learning
Alan Turing Institute, Economics and ML reading group, February 2021
Slides I
Slides II
The social impact of algorithmic decision making: Economic perspectives
Stanford, October 2020
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Basic income and basic income experiments
July 2020
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Recording
What do we want? And when do we want it?
Alternative objectives and their implications for experimental design.
May 2020
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Recording of presentation in the Chamberlain online seminar
(With discussions by David McKenzie and Max Tabord-Meehan)
Adaptive combinatorial allocation: How to use limited resources while learning what works
May 2020
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Fairness, equality, and power in algorithmic decision making
May 2020
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No data in the void
Economics for Inclusive Prosperity Conference, Harvard Kennedy School, March 27, 2020
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Adaptive treatment assignment in experiments for policy choice
Causal Machine Learning Workshop St. Gallen, January 20, 2020
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Experiments designed to help the participants
IRC Jordan, July 10, 2019
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Conference “Statistics in a social context”
Harvard, May 10-11, 2019
Conference announcement, schedule, and links to talks
Adaptive treatment assignment in experiments for policy choice (short version)
MIT, May 18, 2019
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Statistics in a Social Context - Opening remarks
Harvard, May 10, 2019
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Designing basic income experiments
Jain Family Institute, April 12, 2019
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Machine learning, shrinkage estimation, and economic theory
Sciences Po, Friday, December 14, 2018
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Which findings get published? Which findings should be published? (short version)
BITSS Annual Meeting, UC Berkeley, Monday, December 10, 2018
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Video
Causality and randomization
Harvard Philosophy Causality Conference, Friday, November 2, 2018
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Which findings get published? Which findings should be published?
Bocconi, Tuesday, September 4, 2018
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Which findings should be published
Cologne, Thursday, August 30, 2018
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How to use economic theory to improve estimators
Montreal, Wednesday, June 27, 2018
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Optimal taxation and insurance using machine learning
Machine Learning in Economics and Econometrics conference, Munich, Tuesday, May 29, 2018
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Habilitationsvortrag: Machine learning, shrinkage estimation, and economic theory
WU Wien, Friday, May 25, 2018
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Estimating Risk
Gary Chamberlain Retirement Conference, Friday, May 4, 2018
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“Approximate Cross-Validation,” and “Dynamic Experiments for Policy Choice”
Harvard, Monday, April 23, 2018
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Choosing among regularized estimators in empirical economics
AEA Session: Machine Learning for Policy Research, Friday, January 5, 2018
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Identification of and correction for publication bias
Sciences Po, Wednesday, December 13, 2017
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Technischer Wandel und der Arbeitsmarkt
Hauptverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger, Friday, October 20, 2017
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Empirical research on economic inequality: Normative considerations and empirical practice
IHS Wien, Monday, May 15, 2017
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International corporate taxation: Problems and a reform proposal
Re:publika Berlin, Monday, May 8, 2017
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Uniformity and the delta-method
Monday, October 27, 2014
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Who wins, who loses? Tools for distributional policy evaluation
Friday, September 26, 2014
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Video
Why experimenters should not randomize, and what they should do instead
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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Video
Partial identification, distributional preferences, and the welfare ranking of policies
Friday, April 27, 2012
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Nonparametric inference on the number of equilibria
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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Identification in a model of sorting with social externalities and the causes of urban segregation
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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Identification in Triangular Systems Using Control Functions
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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