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Marketing Science Vol. 45 No. 2 2026

A Deep-DiD Method to Estimate Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Application to Content Creator Selection

Yan Cheng1; Jingbo Wang2; Xinyu Cao2; Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen3; Yuhui Zhang4

1 College of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China · 2 Department of Marketing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · 3 Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research & Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · 4 Industry Collaborator

Abstract

This paper develops a Deep-DiD method that integrates two deep neural networks into a difference-in-differences framework to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects and applies it to optimizing platform creator selection.

DOI
10.1287/mksc.2023.0511
Volume
45
Issue
2
Pages
258-279
Language
en
Sources
crossref openalex

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