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Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Analysis for Social Scientists: A Review

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AuthorsAnning Hu
JournalSocial Science Research
Year2023
DOI10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102810
Citations29

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Provides a canonical overview or reference point for the relevant DoOperator research area.

What problem it solves

Provides a canonical overview or reference point for the relevant DoOperator research area.

How it works

An accessible review of heterogeneous treatment effect methods including interactions, GAMs, propensity scores, causal trees, causal forests, BART, and meta-learners.

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