Search Results for author: Daniel Ngo

Found 3 papers, 2 papers with code

Incentive-Aware Synthetic Control: Accurate Counterfactual Estimation via Incentivized Exploration

no code implementations26 Dec 2023 Daniel Ngo, Keegan Harris, Anish Agarwal, Vasilis Syrgkanis, Zhiwei Steven Wu

We consider the setting of synthetic control methods (SCMs), a canonical approach used to estimate the treatment effect on the treated in a panel data setting.

counterfactual valid

Incentivizing Compliance with Algorithmic Instruments

1 code implementation21 Jul 2021 Daniel Ngo, Logan Stapleton, Vasilis Syrgkanis, Zhiwei Steven Wu

In rounds, a social planner interacts with a sequence of heterogeneous agents who arrive with their unobserved private type that determines both their prior preferences across the actions (e. g., control and treatment) and their baseline rewards without taking any treatment.

Selection bias

Strategic Instrumental Variable Regression: Recovering Causal Relationships From Strategic Responses

1 code implementation12 Jul 2021 Keegan Harris, Daniel Ngo, Logan Stapleton, Hoda Heidari, Zhiwei Steven Wu

In settings where Machine Learning (ML) algorithms automate or inform consequential decisions about people, individual decision subjects are often incentivized to strategically modify their observable attributes to receive more favorable predictions.

Decision Making Fairness +1

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