Economic Policy and Causal Machine Learning

The availability of “Big Data” and the abundance of computing power have triggered the development of new methods for causal analysis based on machine learning. Our research interest is to explore the potential of these causal machine learning methods and make them applicable to real-world policy questions. They can guide optimal policy decisions and help to systematically evaluate existing policy measure.

This research receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. The project Causal analysis with Big Data is part of the National Research Programme 75 “Big Data” (NRP 75).