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Big data in transportation : an economics perspective
Selod, Harris; Soumahoro, Souleymane - 2020
This paper reviews the emerging big data literature applied to urban transportation issues from the perspective of economic research. It provides a typology of big data sources relevant to transportation analyses and describes how these data can be used to measure mobility, associated...
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Big data for sampling design : the Venezuelan migration crisis in Ecuador
Muñoz, Juan; Muñoz, José; Olivieri, Sergio - 2020
The worsening of Ecuador's socioeconomic conditions and the rapid inflow of Venezuelan migrants demand a rapid government response. Representative information on the migration and host communities is vital for evidence-based policy design. This study presents an innovative methodology based on...
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Free riding in loan approvals : evidence from SME lending in Peru
Arraiz, Irani; Bruhn, Miriam; Roth, Benjamin N.; … - 2019
This paper provides evidence that commercial lenders in Peru free ride off their peers' screening efforts. Leveraging a discontinuity in the loan approval process of a large bank, the study finds that competing lenders responded to additional loan approvals by issuing approvals of their own....
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Using mobile phone data to reduce spread of disease
Milusheva, Sveta - 2020
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Labor market analysis using big data : the case of a Pakistani online job portal
Matsuda, Norihiko; Ahmed, Tutan; Nomura, Shinsaku - 2019
Facing a youth bulge-a large influx of a young labor force-the Pakistani economy needs to create more jobs by taking advantage of this relatively well-educated young labor force. Yet, the educated young labor force suffers a higher unemployment rate, and there is a concern that the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167896
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Surveys, big data, and experiments : how can we best learn about LGBTI development outcomes?
Koehler, Dominik; Menzies, Nicholas - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736139
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Sae : a stata package for unit level small area estimation
Nguyen, Minh Cong; Corral, Paul; Azevedo, João Pedro; … - 2018
This paper presents a new family of Stata functions devoted to small area estimation. Small area methods attempt to solve low representativeness of surveys within areas, or the lack of data for specific areas/sub-populations. This is accomplished by incorporating information from outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002194
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Applying machine learning and geolocation techniques to social media data (Twitter) to develop a resource for urban planning
Milusheva, Sveta; Marty, Robert; Bedoya, Guadalupe; … - 2020
With all the recent attention focused on big data, it is easy to overlook that basic vital statistics remain difficult to obtain in most of the world. This project set out to test whether an openly available dataset (Twitter) could be transformed into a resource for urban planning and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434496
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Enforcing competition and firm productivity : evidence from 1,800 Peruvian municipalities
Schiffbauer, Marc; Sampi, James - 2019
competition across 1,800 municipalities and matches it with establishment census panel data to estimate the impact on … result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …/14 empowered the competition authority to enforce the elimination of illegal, sector-specific subnational regulatory barriers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004769
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Corporate market power in Romania : assessing recent trends, drivers, and implications for competition
Iootty, Mariana; Pop, Georgiana; Pena, Jorge - 2020
the implications for competition and economic growth. The results show that the (sales-weighted) average markup in Romania … environment that is less conducive to competition. A decomposition exercise shows that the increase in aggregate markups has been … ownership. Further, the paper shows that additional productivity dividends are associated with increased competition in Romania …
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