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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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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

Ferrara, Andreas; Testa, Patrick A.; Zhou, Liyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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Ianchovichina, Elena - Weltbank - 2018

Eruptions of Popular Anger: The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath sets out to answerthree puzzles-the "Arab inequality" puzzle of civil uprisings in countries with low-to-moderateand stagnant economic inequality, the "unhappy development" paradox of increasing dissatisfactionat a...

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The Fallout of War : The Regional Consequences of the Conflict in Syria

The World Bank - 2020

The people of the Mashreq have seen more than their share of deaths, economic losses, and instability over the past decade. As the decade-long conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic created new challenges and worsened the existing ones, economic activity declined, labor markets deteriorated, and...

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The Fallout of War : The Regional Consequences of the Conflict in Syria

World Bank Group - 2020

As a region, the Mashreq has seen more than its share of deaths, economic losses, and instability for the last decade. The region has braved massive economic and social shocks that would challenge even the most advanced economies in the world. The conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic has...

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