1 code implementation • 2 Nov 2024 • Daniel de Vassimon Manela, Laura Battaglia, Robin J. Evans
Investigating the marginal causal effect of an intervention on an outcome from complex data remains challenging due to the inflexibility of employed models and the lack of complexity in causal benchmark datasets, which often fail to reproduce intricate real-world data patterns.
no code implementations • 23 Feb 2024 • Laura Battaglia, Timothy Christensen, Stephen Hansen, Szymon Sacher
It has become common practice for researchers to use AI-powered information retrieval algorithms or other machine learning methods to estimate variables of economic interest, then use these estimates as covariates in a regression model.
no code implementations • 16 Jul 2021 • Szymon Sacher, Laura Battaglia, Stephen Hansen
Latent variable models are increasingly used in economics for high-dimensional categorical data like text and surveys.