Susan Athey

Global rank #725 99%

Institution: Stanford University

Primary Field: Econometrics (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://people.stanford.edu/athey/

First Publication: 2000

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pat6 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	Total
Last 5 Years	3.92	2.18	2.08	22.29
Last 10 Years	4.93	2.18	4.26	28.49
All Time	16.05	2.18	5.93	74.67

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 32

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 24.60

Publications (32)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products	American Economic Review	S	1
2025	Machine learning who to nudge: Causal vs predictive targeting in a field experiment on student financial aid renewal	Journal of Econometrics	A	3
2024	Using Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks for the design of Monte Carlo simulations	Journal of Econometrics	A	4
2024	The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division 2023–2024	Review of Industrial Organization	B	4
2023	When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	4
2023	The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division, 2022–2023	Review of Industrial Organization	B	4
2022	Design-based analysis in Difference-In-Differences settings with staggered adoption	Journal of Econometrics	A	2
2022	The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division 2021–2022	Review of Industrial Organization	B	3
2022	Expanding capacity for vaccines against Covid-19 and future pandemics: a review of economic issues	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	C	6
2021	Synthetic Difference-in-Differences	American Economic Review	S	5
2021	Matrix Completion Methods for Causal Panel Data Models	Journal of the American Statistical Association	B	5
2021	Policy Learning With Observational Data	Econometrica	S	2
2020	Sampling‐Based versus Design‐Based Uncertainty in Regression Analysis	Econometrica	S	4
2020	Peaches, lemons, and cookies: Designing auction markets with dispersed information	Games and Economic Behavior	B	4
2019	Comment on: “The Blessings of Multiple Causes” by Yixin Wang and David M. Blei	Journal of the American Statistical Association	B	3
2018	Exact p-Values for Network Interference	Journal of the American Statistical Association	B	3
2018	Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests	Journal of the American Statistical Association	B	2
2017	Estimating Average Treatment Effects: Supplementary Analyses and Remaining Challenges	American Economic Review	S	4
2015	A Measure of Robustness to Misspecification	American Economic Review	S	2
2014	Dynamics of Open Source Movements	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	B	2
2013	Set-Asides and Subsidies in Auctions	American Economic Journal: Microeconomics	B	3
2011	Comparing open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	3
2011	Position Auctions with Consumer Search	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	2
2010	The Impact of Targeting Technology on Advertising Markets and Media Competition	American Economic Review	S	2
2009	Skewed Bidding in Pay-per-Action Auctions for Online Advertising	American Economic Review	S	3
2007	Designing Efficient Mechanisms for Dynamic Bilateral Trading Games	American Economic Review	S	2
2007	What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes	American Economic Review	S	5
2004	Collusion and Price Rigidity	Review of Economic Studies	S	3
2002	Monotone Comparative Statics under Uncertainty	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	1
2001	Organizational Design: Decision Rights and Incentive Contracts	American Economic Review	S	2
2001	Information and Competition in U.S. Forest Service Timber Auctions	Journal of Political Economy	S	2
2000	Mentoring and Diversity	American Economic Review	S	3