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Family Trees and Falling Apples : Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men

Buckles, Kasey S.; Price, Joseph; Ward, Zachary; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

linking methods to produce a dataset with hundreds of millions of census-to-census links, nearly half of which are for women …

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Generation Next : Experimentation with AI

Charness, Gary; Jabarian, Brian; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the potential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance scientific practice within experimentation by identifying key areas, directions, and implications. First, we discuss how these models can improve experimental design, including improving the elicitation wording, coding...

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From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking. Researchers have used SWB data in novel ways, for example to learn about welfare or preferences when choice data are...

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Linear Estimation of Global Average Treatment Effects

Faridani, Stefan; Niehaus, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

the cash transfer experiment studied by Egger et al (2022) these methods yield a 20% larger estimated effect on …

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Textual Factors : A Scalable, Interpretable, and Data-driven Approach to Analyzing Unstructured Information

Cong, Lin William; Liang, Tengyuan; Zhang, Xiao; Zhu, Wu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We introduce a general approach for analyzing large-scale text-based data, combining the strengths of neural network language processing and generative statistical modeling to create a factor structure of unstructured data for downstream regressions typically used in social sciences. We generate...

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Toward an Understanding of the Political Economy of Using Field Experiments in Policymaking

Briscese, Guglielmo; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Field experiments provide the clearest window into the true impact of many policies, allowing us to understand what works, what does not, and why. Yet, their widespread use has not been accompanied by a deep understanding of the political economy of their adoption in policy circles. This study...

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Financing, Ownership, and Performance : A Novel, Longitudinal Firm-Level Database

Brown, J. David; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) underpins many studies of firm-level behavior. It tracks longitudinally all employers in the nonfarm private sector but lacks information about business financing and owner characteristics. We address this shortcoming by linking LBD...

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Behavioral Feedback : Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?

Oster, Emily - 2018

causal effects. I formalize this change in selection in a simple model. I test for evidence of these patterns in the context …

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Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning

Gu, Shihao - 2018

We perform a comparative analysis of machine learning methods for the canonical problem of empirical asset pricing … doubling the performance of leading regression-based strategies from the literature. We identify the best performing methods … by other methods. All methods agree on the same set of dominant predictive signals which includes variations on momentum …

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Accounting for Environmental Activity : Measuring Public Environmental Expenditures and the Environmental Goods and Services Sector in the US

Fixler, Dennis J.; Hass, Julie L.; Highfill, Tina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Account) while following the accounting principles and methods outlined in the SEEA Central Framework (SEEA-CF). This approach …

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