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Susan Athey

Economics of Technology Professor · Stanford Graduate School of Business

The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business; research covers economics of digitization, machine learning and causal inference, adaptive experiments, industrial organization and marketplace design. 2023 President of the American Economic Association.

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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, …