Publications

Journals

  • From Predictive Algorithms to Automatic Generation of Anomalies

    with Sendhil Mullainathan

    Econometrica, Forthcoming.

  • Robust Design and Evaluation of Predictive Algorithms under Unobserved Confounding

    with Amanda Coston and Edward Kennedy

    The Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.

  • Large Language Models: An Applied Econometric Framework

    with Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan

    Annual Review of Economics.

  • Design-Based Uncertainty for Quasi-Experiments

    with Jonathan Roth

    The Journal of the American Statistical Association.

  • Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice

    with Isaiah Andrews, Nano Barahona, Matthew Gentzkow, and Jesse Shapiro

    The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

  • Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data

    The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

  • A More Credible Approach to Parallel Trends

    with Jonathan Roth

    The Review of Economic Studies.

  • Panel Experiments and Dynamic Causal Effects: A Finite Population Perspective

    with Iavor Bojinov and Neil Shephard

    Quantitative Economics.

Conference Proceedings

  • What Has a Foundation Model Found? Using Inductive Bias to Probe for World Models

    with Peter Chang, Keyon Vafa, and Sendhil Mullainathan

    2025. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

  • Evaluating the World Model Implicit in a Generative Model

    with Justin Chen, Keyon Vafa, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan

    2024. Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Spotlight Award.

  • Do Large Language Models Perform the Way People Expect? Measuring the Human Generalization Function

    with Keyon Vafa and Sendhil Mullainathan

    2024. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

  • Characterizing Fairness over the Set of Good Models under Selective Labels

    with Amanda Coston and Alexandra Chouldechova

    2021. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

  • Bias In, Bias Out? Evaluating the Folk Wisdom

    with Jonathan Roth

    2020. 1st Symposium on the Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC).

Other Publications

  • Causal Inference with Satellite Imagery: A Comparison of Methods for Forest Conservation Data

    with Haya Alsharif, Rahul Singh, and Davide Viviano

    AEA Papers and Proceedings.

  • Algorithms as a Vehicle to Reflective Equilibrium: Behavioral Economics 2.0

    with Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Sophia L. Pink

    2025. In Ajay K. Agrawal, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Anton Korinek, eds., The Economics of Transformative AI. University of Chicago Press. NBER Conference Volume.

  • Science in the Age of Algorithms

    with Sendhil Mullainathan

    2025. In Ajay K. Agrawal, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Anton Korinek, eds., The Economics of Transformative AI. University of Chicago Press. NBER Conference Volume.

  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Algorithms

    with Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan

    AEA Papers and Proceedings.

  • An Economic Perspective on Algorithmic Fairness

    with Jon Kleinberg, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainathan

    AEA Papers and Proceedings.

  • Algorithmic Fairness

    with Jon Kleinberg, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainathan

    AEA Papers and Proceedings.