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Michael Pollmann

Assistant Professor of Economics
Economics
206 Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097

Overview


I'm an econometrician working on causal inference and machine learning. My current focus is on the analysis of spatial data.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Economics · 2022 - Present Economics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published October 29, 2022
Economics' New Faculty Take a Multifaceted Look at Real-World Problems

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Recent Publications


Semi-parametric estimation of treatment effects in randomised experiments

Journal Article Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology · November 1, 2023 We develop new semi-parametric methods for estimating treatment effects. We focus on settings where the outcome distributions may be thick tailed, where treatment effects may be small, where sample sizes are large, and where assignment is completely random ... Full text Cite

Price and income effects of hospital reimbursements.

Journal Article Journal of health economics · January 2022 Health insurance systems in many countries reimburse hospitals through fixed prices based on the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) of patients. We quantify the effects of price and income changes for the full spectrum of hospital services as average and hete ... Full text Cite

Comment on: “The Blessings of Multiple Causes” by Yixin Wang and David M. Blei

Journal Article Journal of the American Statistical Association · October 2, 2019 Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Stanford University · 2022 Ph.D.
Stanford University · 2020 M.A.

External Links


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