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73
Citations
32363
World Ranking
386
National Ranking
264

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association
  • 2004 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Susan Athey is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on mathematics, with significant work in subfields such as statistics and probability, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, and management science and operations research.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Advanced causal inference techniques
  • Statistical methods and inference
  • Advanced bandit algorithms research
  • Misinformation and its impacts
  • Consumer market behavior and pricing
  • Statistical methods and Bayesian inference
  • Healthcare policy and management

Significant recent papers include:

  • Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries, 2021, Science Advances
  • Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities, 2020, Science
  • Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science, 2021, Nature
  • Sampling-Based versus Design-Based Uncertainty in Regression Analysis, 2020, Econometrica
  • Stable learning establishes some common ground between causal inference and machine learning, 2022, Nature Machine Intelligence

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Guido W. Imbens
  • Dean Karlan
  • Ruoxuan Xiong
  • Michael Luca
  • Joshua T Vogelstein

Regarding publication venues, Susan Athey has contributed extensively to the following:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings

The scientist has received several awards throughout their career, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
  • John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association, 2007
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society, 2004
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2000

Best Publications

  • Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests

    Stefan Wager;Susan Athey

  • Generalized random forests

    Susan Athey;Julie Tibshirani;Stefan Wager

  • Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-in-Differences Models

    Susan Athey;Guido W. Imbens

  • Recursive partitioning for heterogeneous causal effects

    Susan Athey;Guido Imbens

  • The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation

    Susan Athey;Guido W. Imbens

  • An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories About Complimentarity in Organizational Design

    Susan Athey;Scott Stern

  • When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering

    Alberto Abadie;Susan Athey;Guido W. Imbens;Jeffrey Wooldridge

  • Machine Learning Methods That Economists Should Know About

    Susan Athey;Susan Athey;Guido W. Imbens

  • Design-based Analysis in Difference-In-Differences Settings with Staggered Adoption

    Susan Athey;Guido W. Imbens

  • Single Crossing Properties and the Existence of Pure Strategy Equilibria in Games of Incomplete Information

    Susan Carleton Athey

  • Position Auctions with Consumer Search

    Susan Athey;Glenn Ellison

  • The Econometrics of Randomized Experiments

    Susan Athey;Guido Imbens

  • The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics

    Susan Athey

  • Identification of standard auction models

    Susan Athey;Philip A. Haile

  • Optimal collusion with private information

    Susan Athey;Kyle Bagwell

  • Comparing open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions*

    Susan Athey;Jonathan Levin;Enrique Seira

  • Collusion and Price Rigidity

    Susan Athey;Kyle Bagwell;Chris William Sanchirico

  • The impact of information technology on emergency health care outcomes.

    Susan Athey;Scott Stern

  • Estimating Treatment Effects with Causal Forests: An Application

    Susan Athey;Stefan Wager

  • Optimal Collusion with Private Information

    Susan Athey;Kyle Bagwell;Kyle Bagwell

  • Synthetic Difference In Differences

    Dmitry Arkhangelsky;Susan Athey;David A. Hirshberg;Guido W. Imbens

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido W. Imbens
Guido W. Imbens Stanford University
Jonathan Levin
Jonathan Levin Stanford University
Joshua S. Gans
Joshua S. Gans University of Toronto
David M. Blei
David M. Blei Columbia University
Kyle Bagwell
Kyle Bagwell Stanford University
Joshua T. Vogelstein
Joshua T. Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University
Brett D. Mensh
Brett D. Mensh Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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