Digital interventions and habit formation in educational technology

no code implementations • 16 Oct 2023 • Keshav Agrawal, Susan Athey, Ayush Kanodia, Emil Palikot

In addition, we observed a 6\% increase in retention within the treatment group.

Effective and scalable programs to facilitate labor market transitions for women in technology

no code implementations • 18 Nov 2022 • Susan Athey, Emil Palikot

We estimate that Mentoring increases the probability of finding a technology job within four months from 29% to 42% and Challenges from 20% to 29%, and the treatment effects do not attenuate over 12 months.

counterfactual

Smiles in Profiles: Improving Fairness and Efficiency Using Estimates of User Preferences in Online Marketplaces

no code implementations • 2 Sep 2022 • Susan Athey, Dean Karlan, Emil Palikot, Yuan Yuan

Online platforms often face challenges being both fair (i. e., non-discriminatory) and efficient (i. e., maximizing revenue).

Fairness

Personalized Recommendations in EdTech: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

no code implementations • 30 Aug 2022 • Keshav Agrawal, Susan Athey, Ayush Kanodia, Emil Palikot

We study the impact of personalized content recommendations on the usage of an educational app for children.

Recommendation Systems

CAREER: A Foundation Model for Labor Sequence Data

1 code implementation • 16 Feb 2022 • Keyon Vafa, Emil Palikot, Tianyu Du, Ayush Kanodia, Susan Athey, David M. Blei

We fit CAREER to a dataset of 24 million job sequences from resumes, and adjust it on small longitudinal survey datasets.

Language Modelling Transfer Learning