This Thursday, I will present at the CIREQ Séminaire Marcel-Dagenais en Économétrie at Université de Montréal, ou paper Optimal Transport for Counterfactual Estimation: A Method for Causal Inference, written with Emmanuel Flachaire and Ewen Gallic. Many problems ask a question that can be formulated as a causal question: “what would have happened if…?” For example, “would the person have had surgery if he or she had been Black?” To address this kind of questions, calculating an average treatment effect (ATE) is often uninformative, because … <a …