January 7-9th, 2018, Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown
aeaeconomicsmachine-learningeconometricsmatching-marketscausal-inference
Abstraction: AEA 2018 short courses on ML, econometrics, and market design
Key points:
- Three courses: Matching Market Design (Abdulkadiroglu, Agarwal, Pathak), Machine Learning and Econometrics (Athey, Imbens), and DSGE Models and Finance (Christiano, Philippon)
- Athey and Imbens covered the intersection of econometrics and machine learning including causal inference; Imbens is a Fellow of the Econometric Society specializing in causal methods
- Pathak and Abdulkadiroglu designed school-choice matching systems for Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, and other cities
- Susan Athey served as consulting chief economist at Microsoft for six years; studies economics of digitization, marketplace design, and the ML/econometrics intersection
- Each course delivered in nine webcast parts with downloadable course materials
Connections: Susan Athey · Guido Imbens · Parag Pathak · Machine Learning · Causal Inference · Matching Markets
Source: https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/cont-ed/2018-webcasts