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Career

· Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division2022–2024
· The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford University Graduate School of Business2014–
· Professor of Economics, Harvard University2006–2012
· Holbrook Working Professor of Economics, Stanford University2004–2006
· Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University2001–2003
· Castle Krob Career Development Associate Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)1998–2001
· Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)1995–1997
· PhD, Economics, Stanford University Graduate School of Business1991–1995
· BA, Economics, Computer Science, and Mathematics, Duke University1987–1991

Publications (388)

Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests
Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2015
2,842
cited
When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?
Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2017
1,866
cited
Recursive partitioning for heterogeneous causal effects
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
1,594
cited
Generalized random forests
Annals of Statistics · 2016
1,588
cited
The State of Applied Econometrics - Causality and Policy Evaluation
2016
1,170
cited
Synthetic Difference in Differences
The American Economic Review · 2018
957
cited
Machine Learning Methods That Economists Should Know About
Annual Review of Economics · 2019
788
cited
Design-Based Analysis in Difference-in-Differences Settings with Staggered Adoption
Journal of Econometrics · 2018
731
cited
Single Crossing Properties and the Existence of Pure Strategy Equilibria in Games of Incomplete Information
1997
691
cited
An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories About Complimentarity in Organizational Design
1998
583
cited
Beyond prediction: Using big data for policy problems
Science · 2017
527
cited
Position Auctions with Consumer Search
2007
501
cited
The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics
The Economics of Artificial Intelligence · 2018
475
cited
Matrix Completion Methods for Causal Panel Data Models
Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2017
469
cited
Estimating Treatment Effects with Causal Forests: An Application
Observational Studies · 2019
465
cited
The Econometrics of Randomized Experiments
2016
465
cited
Monotone Comparative Statics under Uncertainty
2002
456
cited
Identification of Standard Auction Models
2000
441
cited
Optimal Collusion with Private Information
1999
440
cited
Policy Learning With Observational Data
Econometrica · 2017
420
cited
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