Machine learning methods for causal inference
3 November 2025 12:15 to 14:00 | Seminar Machine learning is great at prediction, but empirical researchers need credible causal answers. This seminar offers a nontechnical tour of modern methods that blend ML with causal inference to estimate average and heterogeneous treatment effects while guarding against overfitting. Using data from a well-known field experiment of Campos-Mercade et al. (2024
https://www.staff.lu.se/calendar/machine-learning-methods-causal-inference - 2026-01-12
