Double and Single Descent in Causal Inference with an Application to High-Dimensional Synthetic Control

1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Jann Spiess, Guido Imbens, Amar Venugopal

Motivated by a recent literature on the double-descent phenomenon in machine learning, we consider highly over-parameterized models in causal inference, including synthetic control with many control units.

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