Detailed course description:

  • ML for Group Average Treatment Effects, Conditional Average Treatment Effects
  • causal forest
  • double-lasso
  • double machine learning
  • partialling-out, partially linear regression, interactive regression model, IV model
  • overfitting, regularisation bias
  • neyman-orthogonality, sample-splitting
  • hyperparameter optimisation
  • sensitivity analysis
  • quantile treatment effects
  • mediation analysis
  • sample selection models, dynamic treatment effects
  • cluster robust DML
  • double machine learning for DiD
  • policy trees
  • empirical bayes
  • bayesian networks
  • estimating CATE from satellite images and other kind of images
  • Large language models for ATE estimation

Practical classes are taught in R, Python and Matlab. Participants are asked to install the software before the course.

Schedule:

21.01.2025 - 23.01.2025
15:00-21:30 GMT+1(Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, Rome)
9:00-15:30 EST (Boston, New York, Washington)
18 hours contact hours