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Bike-sharing: network efficiency and demand profiles

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Gracia-Lázaro, Carlos; … - 2021

This paper analyzes a bike-sharing service from both network efficiency and demand profiles perspectives. Specifically … the evolution of the use of the BIZI service, using network analysis to show that efficiency increased rapidly over time …

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The formation of migrant networks

Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - 2014

This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...

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Co-authorship and academic productivity in economics : interaction maps from the complex networks approach

Molina, José Alberto; Alcolea, Alberto; Ferrer, Alfredo; … - 2016

We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among economists. To that end, we employ interaction maps from Complex Systems methods to study the global...

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Urban economics in a historical perspective: recovering data with machine learning

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, Laurent; Zylberberg, … - 2021

A recent literature has used a historical perspective to better understand fundamental questions of urban economics. However, a wide range of historical documents of exceptional quality remain underutilised: their use has been hampered by their original format or by the massive amount of...

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The effect of sport in online dating: evidence from causal machine learning

Boller, Daniel; Lechner, Michael; Okasa, Gabriel - 2021

Online dating emerged as a key platform for human mating. Previous research focused on socio-demographic characteristics to explain human mating in online dating environments, neglecting the commonly recognized relevance of sport. This research investigates the effect of sport activity on human...

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Learning about farming: innovation and social networks in a resettled community in Brazil

Comola, Margherita; Inguaggiato, Carla; Mendola, Mariapia - 2021

We study the role of social learning in the diffusion of cash crops in a resettled village economy in northeastern Brazil. We combine detailed geo-coded data on farming plots with dyadic data on social ties among settlers, and we leverage natural exogenous variation in network formation induced...

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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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Artificial Intelligence and the economics of decision-making

Naudé, Wim - 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) scientists are challenged to create intelligent, autonomous agents that can make rational decisions. In this challenge, they confront two questions: what decision theory to follow and how to implement it in AI systems. This paper provides answers to these questions...

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The finite sample performance of inference methods for propensity score matching and weighting estimators

Bodory, Hugo; Camponovo, Lorenzo; Huber, Martin; … - 2016

This paper investigates the finite sample properties of a range of inference methods for propensity score … asymptotic approximations and bootstrap methods for computing variances and confidence intervals in our simulation design, which … share of treated, and the sample size. The results suggest that in general, the bootstrap procedures dominate the asymptotic …

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Implementing the panel event study

Clarke, Damian; Tapia Schythe, Kathya - 2020

practical considerations for its estimation. We describe a Stata command eventdd that allows for simple estimation, inference …

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