Economic resilience in times of public health shock: The case of the US states

SMI Osman, F Islam, N Sakib - Research in Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Does adopting social distancing policies amid a health crisis, eg, COVID-19, hurt
economies? Using a machine learning approach at the intermediate stage, we applied a …

Frenemies: Foreign Imposed Alliance Treaties and Authoritarianism

N Sakib - Available at SSRN 4060376, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper argues that for the imposer of a regime change or war, installing an authoritarian
regime is one of the best ways to impose the political will on the target. Previous …

[PDF][PDF] Statistical and deep learning methods in causal inference

A Whata - 2021 - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are excellent at predicting outcomes rather than
explaining causality. On the other hand, deep learning algorithms such as deep neural …

Did Voting Differently Really Help?-Lessons from 2016 & 2008 US Presidential Elections

S Akhtar - Available at SSRN 4007119, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Voting is a crucial phenomenon in a democratic nation. While making decisions on whom to
vote, voters take many indicators into consideration. They sometimes change their voting …