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AI, Labor, Productivity and the Need for Firm-Level Data
Seamans, Robert - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453474
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The State of Corporate Governance Research
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2009
and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research … governance project. Each of the papers represents state-of-the-art research in an important area of corporate governance research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463112
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Traumatic Health Shocks and Spiritual Capital
Cesur, Resul - 2018
While the relationship between adverse health shocks and health care utilization has been studied extensively, next to nothing is known about the effect of health shocks on religiosity, which may serve as an alternative to secular psychological services and interventions. Filling this gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480607
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The Economics of Faith : Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field
Augenblick, Ned - 2012
We model religious faith as a "demand for beliefs," following the logic of the Pascalian wager. We then demonstrate how an experimental intervention can exploit standard elicitation techniques to measure religious belief by varying prizes associated with making choices contrary to one's belief...
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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
still preliminary and are not official statistics, the goals of this research are to provide new insights into …
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Incorporating Micro Data into Differentiated Products Demand Estimation with PyBLP
Conlon, Christopher; Gortmaker, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide a general framework for incorporating many types of micro data from summary statistics to full surveys of selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995)-style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend best practices for BLP estimation in Conlon and...
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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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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
Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the United States have been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets that include information linking parents to their adult children. This problem has been especially acute for women, who are more difficult to link...
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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
research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking. Researchers have used SWB data in novel ways, for example to learn … this pioneering research, the first part of this review uses a simple theoretical framework to reverse-engineer some of the … policymakers who may use the resulting research. While we advocate creative uses of SWB data in economics, we caution that their …
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