Transparency challenges in policy evaluation with causal machine learning -- improving usability and accountability
政策评估中因果机器学习的透明性挑战:可用性与问责
Causal machine learning tools are beginning to see use in real-world policy evaluation tasks to flexibly estimate treatment effects. One issue with these methods is that the machine learning models used are generally black boxes, i.e., there is no globally interpretable way to understand how a model makes estimates. This is a clear problem in policy evaluation applications, particularly in government, because it is difficult to understand whether such models are functioning…