Causal Inference in Economics papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Causal Inference in Economics fell from 130 papers in 2023 to 27 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Causal Inference in Economics work: 117 papers from 2023 to 2026, 64% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Reinforcement Learning: papers tagged with both rose from 12 in 2023 to 10 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Finance and Economics, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Macro Forecasting, is up 8.0x versus 0.2x here.

Representative papers

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• NeurIPS 2026Characterizing Underrepresentation in Generalizing Causal Survival Estimates
• ICML 2026Independent Component Discovery in Temporal Count Data
• ICLR 2026Ice Cream Doesn’t Cause Drowning: Benchmarking LLMs Against Statistical Pitfalls in Causal Inference
• CVPR 2026COPO Causal-Oriented Policy Optimization for Hallucinations of MLLMs
• NeurIPS 2025Causal Explanation-Guided Learning for Organ Allocation
• ICML 2025Balancing Interference and Correlation in Spatial Experimental Designs: A Causal Graph Cut Approach
• ICLR 2025Incremental Causal Effect for Time to Treatment Initialization
• NeurIPS 2024Two-way Deconfounder for Off-policy Evaluation in Causal Reinforcement Learning
• ICML 2024Off-policy Evaluation Beyond Overlap: Sharp Partial Identification Under Smoothness
• ICLR 2024Learning in reverse causal strategic environments with ramifications on two sided markets
• NeurIPS 2023A Cross-Moment Approach for Causal Effect Estimation
• ICML 2023B-Learner: Quasi-Oracle Bounds on Heterogeneous Causal Effects Under Hidden Confounding
• ICLR 2023Causal Imitation Learning via Inverse Reinforcement Learning
• CVPR 2023ECON: Explicit Clothed Humans Optimized via Normal Integration
• NeurIPS 2026Certified Policy Optimisation for Nested Causal Bandits via PAC-Bayes Risk
• ICML 2026Smooth Multi-Policy Causal Effect Estimation in Longitudinal Settings
• ICLR 2026Foundation Models for Causal Inference via Prior-Data Fitted Networks
• NeurIPS 2025Pessimistic Data Integration for Policy Evaluation
• ICML 2025Position: Causal Machine Learning Requires Rigorous Synthetic Experiments for Broader Adoption
• ICLR 2025Efficient Causal Decision Making with One-sided Feedback

All Causal Inference in Economics papers

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1. ICML 2026Active Policy Optimization for Individualized Dosing via Gradient Variance Minimization
2. ICML 2026COPF: An Online Framework for Deployment-Stable Counterfactual Fairness in Evolving Graphs
3. ICML 2026Ekka: Automated Diagnosis of Silent Errors in LLM Inference
4. ICML 2026Estimation of Treatment Effects Under Nonstationarity via the Truncated Policy Gradient Estimator
5. ICML 2026Fast-SAM3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images but Faster
6. ICML 2026Gradient-Based Causal Tree Ensembles: A Backbone Architecture for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
7. ICML 2026HodgeFlow Policy Search by Topologically Dissecting Temporal-Difference Signals in Non-Markovian Environments
8. ICML 2026Independent Component Discovery in Temporal Count Data
9. ICML 2026Mitigating Staleness in Asynchronous Pipeline Parallelism via Basis Rotation
10. ICML 2026Off-Policy Evaluation for Missingness-Aware Policies in MDPs with Rewards Missing Not at Random
11. ICML 2026REG: In-Sample RL via Regularizing the Evaluation Gap
12. ICML 2026ScoreMatchingRiesz: Score Matching for Debiased Machine Learning and Policy Path Estimation
13. ICML 2026Smooth Multi-Policy Causal Effect Estimation in Longitudinal Settings
14. ICML 2026SpreadsheetArena: Decomposing Preference in LLM Generation of Spreadsheet Workbooks
15. ICML 2026Target-Driven Policy Optimization for Sequential Counterfactual Outcome Control
16. ICML 2026Towards a Holistic Understanding of Selection Bias for Causal Effect Identification
17. ICML 2026Uncovering Bias Mechanisms in Observational Studies
18. ICML 2025AutoCATE: End-to-End, Automated Treatment Effect Estimation
19. ICML 2025Balancing Interference and Correlation in Spatial Experimental Designs: A Causal Graph Cut Approach
20. ICML 2025Compositional Causal Reasoning Evaluation in Language Models
21. ICML 2025Position: Causal Machine Learning Requires Rigorous Synthetic Experiments for Broader Adoption
22. ICML 2025Rethinking Causal Ranking: A Balanced Perspective on Uplift Model Evaluation
23. ICML 2025Unbiased Evaluation of Large Language Models from a Causal Perspective
24. ICML 2024Off-policy Evaluation Beyond Overlap: Sharp Partial Identification Under Smoothness
25. ICML 2024Tackling Non-Stationarity in Reinforcement Learning via Causal-Origin Representation
26. ICML 2023A/B Testing in Network Data with Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
27. ICML 2023Additive Causal Bandits with Unknown Graph
28. ICML 2023An Instrumental Variable Approach to Confounded Off-Policy Evaluation
29. ICML 2023Automatically marginalized MCMC in probabilistic programming
30. ICML 2023B-Learner: Quasi-Oracle Bounds on Heterogeneous Causal Effects Under Hidden Confounding
31. ICML 2023Causal Modeling of Policy Interventions From Treatment–Outcome Sequences
32. ICML 2023Constrained Causal Bayesian Optimization
33. ICML 2023Continual Task Allocation in Meta-Policy Network via Sparse Prompting
34. ICML 2023Correcting discount-factor mismatch in on-policy policy gradient methods
35. ICML 2023Difference-in-Differences Meets Tree-based Methods: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Estimation with Unmeasured Confounding
36. ICML 2023DRCFS: Doubly Robust Causal Feature Selection
37. ICML 2023Estimating Possible Causal Effects with Latent Variables via Adjustment
38. ICML 2023Expertise Trees Resolve Knowledge Limitations in Collective Decision-Making
39. ICML 2023Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding
40. ICML 2023Forward-Backward Gaussian Variational Inference via JKO in the Bures-Wasserstein Space
41. ICML 2023Graph Inductive Biases in Transformers without Message Passing
42. ICML 2023In or Out? Fixing ImageNet Out-of-Distribution Detection Evaluation
43. ICML 2023Inferring Relational Potentials in Interacting Systems
44. ICML 2023Instrumental Variable Estimation of Average Partial Causal Effects
45. ICML 2023Linear Causal Disentanglement via Interventions
46. ICML 2023Low-Variance Gradient Estimation in Unrolled Computation Graphs with ES-Single
47. ICML 2023Off-Policy Evaluation for Large Action Spaces via Conjunct Effect Modeling
48. ICML 2023On Coresets for Clustering in Small Dimensional Euclidean spaces
49. ICML 2023Online Local Differential Private Quantile Inference via Self-normalization
50. ICML 2023Proximal Causal Learning of Conditional Average Treatment Effects

FAQ

How many Causal Inference in Economics papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

183 in total: 130 in 2023, 10 in 2024, 16 in 2025, 27 in 2026.

How many Causal Inference in Economics papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 4 Causal Inference in Economics papers, versus 6 the year before.

How many Causal Inference in Economics papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 5 Causal Inference in Economics papers, versus 4 the year before.

How many Causal Inference in Economics papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 17 Causal Inference in Economics papers, versus 6 the year before.

How many Causal Inference in Economics papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 1 Causal Inference in Economics papers.

Which conference publishes the most Causal Inference in Economics papers?

NeurIPS, with 117 papers from 2023 to 2026.