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Guido W Imbens

Applied Econometrics Professor · Stanford Graduate School of Business

Applied Econometrics Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, working on econometric methods for causal inference. Shared the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Published Review of Economic Studies Online 30 Sep 2025 Published Jul 2026
The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely

Susan Athey · Raj Chetty · Guido W Imbens · Hyunseung Kang

This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in program evaluation: primary outcomes of interest — such as lifetime earnings or long-term employment — are often observed only with lengthy delays, …