Assessing the impact of environmental performance on corporate financial performance: A firm-level study of GHG emissions in Africa

H Le, HT Nguyen-Phung - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2024 - Elsevier
Utilizing comprehensive firm-level data from 2005 to 2021 across various African nations,
our study investigates the effect of a firm's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on its corporate …

pystacked: Stacking generalization and machine learning in Stata

A Ahrens, CB Hansen, ME Schaffer - The Stata Journal, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The pystacked command implements stacked generalization (Wolpert, 1992, Neural
Networks 5: 241–259) for regression and binary classification via Python's scikit-learn …

Instrumental Variables with Unobserved Heterogeneity in Treatment Effects

M Mogstad, A Torgovitsky - 2024 - nber.org
This chapter synthesizes and critically reviews the modern instrumental variables (IV)
literature that allows for unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects (UHTE). We start by …

Energy Poverty and Health Expenditure: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam

HT Nguyen-Phung, H Le - Social Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
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 …

High-dimensional propensity score and its machine learning extensions in residual confounding control

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 …

Model averaging and double machine learning

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 …

Using machine learning methods to estimate the gender wage gap

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 …

Identify latent group structures in panel data: The classifylasso command

W Huang, Y Wang, L Zhou - The Stata Journal, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Are female leaders hiring more female workers? Evidence from developing countries

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 …

Double/Debiased Machine Learning for Economists: Practical Guidelines, Best Practices, and Common Pitfalls

M Feyzollahi, N Rafizadeh - Best Practices, and Common Pitfalls …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
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 …