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Mining Chinese Historical Sources At Scale : A Machine Learning-Approach to Qing State Capacity

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H.; Yan, Sen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Primary historical sources are often by-passed for secondary sources due to high human costs of accessing and extracting primary information-especially in lower-resource settings. We propose a supervised machine-learning approach to the natural language processing of Chinese historical data. An...

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Economics at the Antitrust Division 2015-2016 : household appliances, oil field services, and airport slots

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All Clear for Takeoff : Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization

Howell, Sabrina T.; Jang, Yeejin; Kim, Hyeik; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

airport performance along a rich array of dimensions such as passengers per flight, total passengers, number of routes, number … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …. These effects are largest when there is a competing airport nearby. Finally, we show that outright ownership rather than …

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New Area- and Population-based Geographic Crosswalks for U.S. Counties and Congressional Districts, 1790–2020

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In applied historical research, geographic units often differ in level of aggregation across datasets. One solution is to use crosswalks that associate factors located within one geographic unit to another, based on their relative areas. We develop an alternative approach based on relative...

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Production, Trade, and Cross-Border Data Flows

Chang, Qing; Cong, Lin William; Liyong, Wang; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We build a two-country general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of cross-border data flows and pre-existing development gaps in data economies on each country's production and international trade. Raw data as byproducts of consumption can be transformed into various types of working data...

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Principal Component Analysis for Nonstationary Series

Hamilton, James D.; Xi, Jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper develops a procedure for uncovering the common cyclical factors that drive a mix of stationary and nonstationary variables. The method does not require knowing which variables are nonstationary or the nature of the nonstationarity. An application to the FRED-MD macroeconomic dataset...

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Consumer Credit Reporting Data

Gibbs, Christa; Guttman-Kenney, Benedict; Lee, Donghoon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Since the 2000s, economists across fields have increasingly used consumer credit reporting data for research. We introduce readers to the economics of and the institutional details of these data. Using examples from the literature, we provide practical guidance on how to use these data to...

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Who Benefits From The Export-Import Bank Aid?

Benmelech, Efraim; Monteiro, Joao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the effectiveness of government aid to exporters by exploring an exogenous shock that affected the ability of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) to provide aid to U.S. exporters through loan guarantees to importers. We focus on Boeing, the largest individual recipient of...

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Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...

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