Golub Capital Social Impact Lab

@GSBsiLab

Led by @Susan_Athey, @StanfordGSB Golub Capital Social Impact Lab uses technology and social science to improve the effectiveness of social sector organizations

Stanford, CA

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Joined September 2019

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Golub Capital Social Impact Lab
@GSBsiLab
Aug 11
The $10 vs. $200 Donation Button — and Why Nonprofits Need Both: A 400,000 PayPal study by former postdoc @ShanjuktaN & @Susan_Athey shows how personalizing donation defaults using machine learning can ease that trade-off. Read about it here:
Shanjukta Nath: The $10 vs. $200 Donation Button — and Why Nonprofits Need Both
From medium.com
Golub Capital Social Impact Lab
@GSBsiLab
Jul 31
📺 Listen to our Faculty Director @Susan_Athey on whether the architecture behind LLMs can predict your next job. Check out the full video below!
Stanford Graduate School of Business
@StanfordGSB
Jul 29
Large language models can help you write a cover letter or spiff up your CV. But Professor Susan Athey wondered: What if the same technology could predict where your career is headed?
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Golub Capital Social Impact Lab
@GSBsiLab
Jul 6
Are you at #ICML2026 today? Don't miss our Faculty Director, @Susan_Athey, delivering an invited talk at 4:00 PM KST in Hall C. Learn more: icml.cc/virtual/2026/i…
Golub Capital Social Impact Lab
@GSBsiLab
Oct 20, 2025
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @Susan_Athey @guido_imbens Zhanonan Qu @VivianoDavide. TROP estimates causal effects in panel models by combining a flexible outcome model (regularized low-rank factors + FE), unit weights, time weights arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
Golub Capital Social Impact Lab
@GSBsiLab
Oct 7, 2025
New Paper Alert! Read the thread below for key takeaways from “Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the United States and Ghana” by @erika_kirgios, @Susan_Athey, @angeladuckw, Dean Karlan, Michael Luca, Katharine Milkman, and Molly Offer-Westort.
Erika Kirgios
@erika_kirgios
Sep 19, 2025
What happens if you *ask* instead of *tell*? Turns out, teasing people with a question before sharing a fact can shape whether people engage with critical health information. Read our new paper in Management Science to learn more: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12…