Measure a host-cancellation program you can't cleanly A/B
Causal inferenceHardProblem. Airbnb launches a program to reduce host cancellations (a costly event that drops guest retention). You can't cleanly randomize which hosts get it. How would you measure its causal impact on cancellations and guest retention?
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