IDSS Distinguished Seminar Series Sendhil Mullainathan
Integrating Behavioral Economics and Machine Learning
Abstract: There are synergies to be had between machine learning algorithms and behavioral economics. In one direction, many algorithms today rely on human-generated data. As such, the insights from behavioral economics, by clarifying what those data mean and do not mean, can improve algorithm design; if we are able to formalize those insights in a computational…
