Logs with zeros? Some problems and solutions

J Chen, J Roth - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
When studying an outcome Y that is weakly positive but can equal zero (eg, earnings),
researchers frequently estimate an average treatment effect (ATE) for a “log-like” …

Count (and count-like) data in finance

JB Cohn, Z Liu, MI Wardlaw - Journal of Financial Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper assesses different econometric approaches to working with count-based
outcome variables and other outcomes with similar distributions, which are increasingly …

Regulatory spillovers and data governance: Evidence from the GDPR

C Peukert, S Bechtold, M Batikas… - Marketing …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We document short-run changes in websites and the web technology industry with the
introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We follow more …

The value of public urban green spaces: Measuring the effects of proximity to and size of urban green spaces on housing market values in San José, Costa Rica

M Piaggio - Land Use Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban green spaces increase population wellbeing because they provide for recreational
possibilities, as well as with many other benefits that are not related with direct use, like air …

[HTML][HTML] The propagation effect of commuting to work in the spatial transmission of COVID-19

T Mitze, R Kosfeld - Journal of geographical systems, 2022 - Springer
This work is concerned with the spatiotemporal dynamics of the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) in Germany. Our goal is twofold: first, we propose a novel spatial econometric …

Intergenerational income mobility in France: A comparative and geographic analysis

G Kenedi, L Sirugue - Journal of Public Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide new estimates of intergenerational income mobility in France for children born in
the 1970s using rich administrative data. Since parents' incomes are not observed, we …

Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach

P Salas-Rojo, JG Rodríguez - The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022 - Springer
This paper explores the relationship between received inheritances and the distribution of
wealth (financial, non-financial and total) in four developed countries: the United States …

The economic costs of NIMBYism: evidence from renewable energy projects

S Jarvis - 2021 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
Large infrastructure projects can have important social benefits, but also prompt strong local
opposition. This is often attributed to NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) attitudes. I study the …

Socioeconomic and demographic disparities in residential battery storage adoption: Evidence from California

DP Brown - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
There is growing interest in the adoption of residential battery storage because of its ability
to provide bill savings, capture excess solar energy, and provide resiliency value. The …

On “Trade induced technical change: The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT, and productivity”

DL Campbell, K Mau - The Review of Economic Studies, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Bloom et al.(2016) find that Chinese import competition induced a rise in patenting,
IT adoption, and total factor productivity (TFP) by up to 30% of the total increase in Europe in …