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Advantages and limits of double machine learning in economics

What is the practical usage of double machine learning in economics and other applied quantitative sciences (environment, healthcare, …)? Is it often used? Are the best practices well established?

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WikiChat: Stopping the Hallucination of Large Language Model Chatbots by Few-Shot Grounding on Wikipedia

Paper: Semnani, S., Yao, V., Zhang, H. C., & Lam, M. (2023, December). WikiChat: Stopping the hallucination of large language model chatbots by few-shot grounding on Wikipedia. In The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

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The end of an era? Activity-based funding based on diagnosis-related groups (DRG)

Four exit paths from a full activity-based inpatient sector explored by ten OECD countries in the last decade.

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(Draft) Machine learning to detect and quantify low-value care

Paper: Mullainathan, S., & Obermeyer, Z. (2019). A machine learning approach to low-value health care: wasted tests, missed heart attacks and mis-predictions. National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Is Public-Private Mix in French Health System Sustainable?

Three major values –solidarity, liberalism, and pluralism– underpins the French Health System. Despite low out-of-pocket payments,its joint reimbursement of the same health service by both private and public insurance raises equity, efficiency, and sustainability challenges.

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