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Over the last two decades, there has been a surge of opioid-related overdose deaths resulting in a myriad of state policy responses. Researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of such policies using a wide-range of statistical models, each of which requires multiple design choices that can...
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Over the last two decades, there has been a surge of opioid-related overdose deaths resulting in a myriad of state policy responses. Researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of such policies using a wide-range of statistical models, each of which requires multiple design choices that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835760
We perform a comparative analysis of machine learning methods for the canonical problem of empirical asset pricing …: measuring asset risk premia. We demonstrate large economic gains to investors using machine learning forecasts, in some cases …, liquidity, and volatility. Improved risk premium measurement through machine learning simplifies the investigation into economic …
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We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely-matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program...
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We summarize existing empirical findings regarding the adoption of robotics and AI and its effects on aggregated labor and productivity, and argue for more systematic collection of the use of these technologies at the firm level. Existing empirical work primarily uses statistics aggregated by...
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In many health domains, we are concerned that observed links - for example, between “healthy” behaviors and good outcomes - are driven by selection into behavior. This paper considers the additional factor that these selection patterns may vary over time. When a particular health behavior...
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This chapter will cover recent research in historical economics that uses ethnographic data and data from surveys and lab experiments. The study of historical economics, particularly outside of non-Western countries, has been constrained by availability of historical data. However, recent work...
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treatment group that was given information about key Social Security provisions and a control group that was not. The experiment … behavior, the information intervention increased survey measures of the perceived returns to working longer, especially among …
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important market learning about CEO ability, even for CEOs whose appointments appear to be unrelated to their predecessors …' performance. Also consistent with the learning model is the fact that the learning curve appears to be convex in time, and … learning is faster when there is higher ex ante uncertainty about the CEO's ability and more transparency about the firm …
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We develop online survey experiments to analyze how information about inequality and taxes affects preferences for … redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U …
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