Causal Inference in Economics papers, 2023–2026
Policy evaluation
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 183 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 102 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 130 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 2025 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 16 |
| 2026 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 27 |
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
5 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient Policy Evaluation Across Multiple Different Experimental Datasets
- NeurIPS 2024Learning Mixtures of Unknown Causal Interventions
- NeurIPS 2024On the Identifiability of Poisson Branching Structural Causal Model Using Probability Generating Function
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Estimating Bounds on the Effect of Policies under Unobserved Confounding
- NeurIPS 2024Two-way Deconfounder for Off-policy Evaluation in Causal Reinforcement Learning
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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.