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A hands-on machine learning primer for social scientists : math, algorithms and code

Askitas, Nikos - 2024

This paper addresses the steep learning curve in Machine Learning faced by noncomputer scientists, particularly social scientists, stemming from the absence of a primer on its fundamental principles. I adopt a pedagogical strategy inspired by the adage "once you understand OLS, you can work your...

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AI, skill, and productivity : the case of taxi drivers

Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - 2022

We examine the impact of Articial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI improves drivers' productivity by shortening the...

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Susceptibility to default training options across the population

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2015

This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most important in their (future or past) jobs. Further on in the survey, we randomly select one of the...

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Trading while sleepy? : circadian mismatch and excess volatility in a global experimental asset market

Dickinson, David L.; Chaudhuri, Ananish; … - 2017

experiment that regularly produces valuation bubble and crash events. Global sessions involved real time trades between subjects …

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Testing for the option value of migration

Locher, Lilo - 2001

Using uncertainty about the future returns to migration, the option value theory of migration can explain low migration rates in spite of huge wage differences. This paper presents the theory in a simple two-period framework and uses ethnic Germans in the CIS to find empirical support for it....

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Breakthroughs, backlashes and Artificial General Intelligence : an extended real options approach

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2022

Breakthroughs and backlashes have marked progress in the development and diffusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These shocks make the investment in developing an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) subject to considerable uncertainty. This paper applies a real options model, extended to...

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Volatility and growth : governments are key

Jetter, Michael - 2013

paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …

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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises

Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013

We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...

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The variability and volatility of sleep: an archetypal approach

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022

individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … rates. Volatility in sleep spills over onto volatility in other personal activities, with no reverse causation onto sleep …

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From riches to rags, and back? : institutional change, financial development and economic growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Campos, Nauro; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2014

individual effects on economic growth and volatility using the power-ARCH framework with annual data since the 1890s. The results …

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