This chapter synthesizes and critically reviews the modern instrumental variables (IV) literature that allows for unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects (UHTE). We start by …
Utilizing data from the 2016 Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we undertake an empirical investigation into the influence of energy poverty on the health expenditure of …
ME Karim - The American Statistician, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract “The use of health care claims datasets often encounters criticism due to the pervasive issues of omitted variables and inaccuracies or mis-measurements in available …
A Ahrens, CB Hansen, ME Schaffer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper discusses pairing double/debiased machine learning (DDML) with stacking, a model averaging method for combining multiple candidate learners, to estimate structural …
R Forshaw, V Iakovlev, ME Schaffer… - Machine Learning for …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Gender Wage Gap (GWG) is a classic topic in labour economics. Simply put, how do we explain the observed gap in earnings between men and women? Traditionally …
In this article, we introduce a new command, classifylasso, that implements the classifier- lasso method (Su, Shi, and Phillips, 2016, Econometrica 84: 2215–2264) to simultaneously …
X Shen, J Zhang - Applied Economics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates whether female leaders of firms in developing countries tend to hire more female workers. We develop a theoretical model in which female leaders increase the …
In an era of increasing data complexity and volume, integrating machine learning (ML) into economics has become not only relevant but also essential. The advent of Double/Debiased …