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There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …
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insurance recommendations provided by economic financial planning software and the practical application of traditional … financial planning software. The two software programs are Economic Security Planner (ESPlanner), developed by Economic Security … stylized and 4 of which are actual households. The two software programs recommend dramatically different levels of saving or …
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software package to facilitate proper power calculations in practice.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series …
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This guide provides a practical introduction to parallel computing in economics. After a brief introduction to the basic ideas of parallelization, we show how to parallelize a prototypical application in economics using, on CPUs, Julia, Matlab, R, Python, C++-OpenMP, Rcpp–OpenMP, and C++-MPI,...
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Many applications involve a censored dependent variable and an endogenous independent variable. Chernozhukov, Fernandez-Val, and Kowalski (2015) introduced a censored quantile instrumental variable estimator (CQIV) for use in those applications, which has been applied by Kowalski (2016), among...
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Patenting in software, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence has grown rapidly in recent years. Such patents are … patents per inventor has declined near-monotonically, except for large increases in inventor productivity in software and …
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We consider problems originating in economics that may be solved automatically using mathematical software. We present … of non-linear real arithmetic, and so are in theory soluble via Quantifier Elimination (QE) technology as usually … and so are also admissible to those Satisfiability Module Theory (SMT) solvers that support the QF_NRA logic. There is a …
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A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
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The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for social scientists to create large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census to another or from other sources to the census. We evaluate different automated methods for record linkage,...
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This paper documents the increasing importance of software for successful innovation in manufacturing sectors well … firms in the software intensity of their innovative activity. Firms that exhibit a higher level of software intensity … that geographic differences in the abundance of skilled software labor are an important factor in determining sample firms …
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