New working paper: AI can forecast treatment effects in economics from pre-registration documents
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-29
- Eva Vivalt's new working paper asks whether AI can forecast treatment effects in economics from pre-registration documents.
- Answer: yes — models produce useful predictions of experimental outcomes before the study runs.
- Economist John Horton calls it "a very important paper"; implications for experiment design and review in economics, and a notable AI-for-social-science result.
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