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Jan
2026
Publication
Aggregation trees published
Who benefits most from a policy—and how do you find out without p-hacking? My paper Aggregation trees, now published in Econometric Reviews, automatically discovers the subgroups that matter and leverages double machine learning for rigorous inference on each group's treatment effect.
Paper R package
Nov
2025
Media
Featured in Il Messaggero
A random forest that does econometrics—interesting enough to make the front page. Ordered correlation forest was picked up by Il Messaggero, one of Italy's largest national newspapers.
Paper R package
Nov
2025
Award
Emerging Econometrician award
Best paper in Econometric Reviews by a scholar within seven years of their Ph.D.—my Ordered correlation forest took home the Emerging Econometrician Award.
Paper R package
Oct
2025
Publication
Causal inference for qualitative outcomes published
Health rated poor → fair → good → excellent—that is not a number, so why treat it like one? Causal inference for qualitative outcomes, now in Economics Letters, gives you clean causal effects on every category, with your favourite identification strategy.
Paper R package
Jan
2025
Publication
Ordered correlation forest published
Ordered logit assumes too much; plain random forests give you no inference. Ordered correlation forest, now in Econometric Reviews, splits the difference—a forest built for ordered outcomes that hands you predictions and marginal effects with valid confidence intervals.
Paper R package
Award
Emerging Econometrician
Press
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