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Optimal Experimental Design for Staggered Rollouts
In this paper, we study the design and analysis of experiments conducted on a set of units over multiple time periods where the starting time of…
Can Personalized Digital Counseling Improve Consumer Search for Modern Contraceptive Methods?
This paper analyzes a randomized controlled trial of a personalized digital counseling intervention addressing informational constraints and…
Federated Causal Inference in Heterogeneous Observational Data
We are interested in estimating the effect of a treatment applied to individuals at multiple sites, where data is stored locally for each site.…
Machine-Learning-Based High-Benefit Approach versus Conventional High-Risk Approach in Blood Pressure Management
In medicine, clinicians treat individuals under an implicit assumption that high-risk patients would benefit most from the treatment (‘high-risk…
Battling the Coronavirus Infodemic Among Social Media Users in Africa
During a global pandemic, how can we best prompt social media users to demonstrate discernment in sharing information online? We ran a contextual…
Digital Public Health Interventions at Scale: The Impact of Social Media Advertising on Beliefs and Outcomes Related to COVID Vaccines
Public health organizations increasingly use social media advertising campaigns in pursuit of public health goals. In this paper, we evaluate the…
Expanding Capacity for Vaccines against COVID-19 and Future Pandemics: A Review of Economic Issues
We review economic arguments for using public policy to accelerate vaccine supply during a pandemic. Rapidly vaccinating a large share of the…
Uncovering Interpretable Potential Confounders in Electronic Medical Records
Randomized clinical trials (RCT) are the gold standard for informing treatment decisions. Observational studies are often plagued by selection…
Shared Decision-Making: Can Improved Counseling Increase Willingness to Pay for Modern Contraceptives?
Long-acting reversible contraceptives are highly effective in preventing unintended pregnancies, but take-up remains low. This paper analyzes a…
Ten Rules for Conducting Retrospective Pharmacoepidemiological Analyses: Example COVID-19 Study
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical treatment hypotheses have abounded, each requiring careful evaluation. A randomized…
Breiman’s Two Cultures: A Perspective from Econometrics
Breiman’s “Two Cultures” paper painted a picture of two disciplines, data modeling, and algorithmic machine learning, both engaged in the analyses…
The Association between Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists and In-Hospital Mortality from COVID-19
Effective therapies for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are urgently needed, and pre-clinical data suggest alpha-1 adrenergic receptor…
Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply
Each month, COVID-19 kills hundreds of thousands of people, reduces global gross domestic product (GDP) by hundreds of billions of dollars, and…
Uncovering Interpretable Potential Confounders in Electronic Medical Records
In medicine, randomized clinical trials are the gold standard for informing treatment decisions. Observational comparative effectiveness research…
Association of α1-Blocker Receipt With 30-Day Mortality and Risk of Intensive Care Unit Admission Among Adults Hospitalized With Influenza or Pneumonia in Denmark
Alpha 1–adrenergic receptor blocking agents (α1-blockers) have been reported to have protective benefits against hyperinflammation and cytokine…
Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability
Vaccinating the world’s population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in…
Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability
Vaccinating the world’s population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in…
Generic Drug Repurposing for Public Health and National Security: COVID-19 and Beyond
The novel disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) has been a shock to both our health and wealth, with more than 276,000 dead in the U.S…
A How-To Guide for Conducting Retrospective Analyses: Example COVID-19 Study
In the urgent setting of the COVID-19 pandemic, treatment hypotheses abound, each of which requires careful evaluation. A randomized controlled…
Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists for Preventing Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Death from Cytokine Storm Syndrome
In severe viral pneumonia, including Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the viral replication phase is often followed by hyperinflammation (‘…