This review presents machine learning (ML) approaches from an applied economist's perspective. We first introduce the key ML methods drawing connections to econometric …
S Hu, P Chen - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a globally unprecedented decline in transit ridership. This paper leveraged the 20-years daily transit ridership data in Chicago to infer the impact …
M Gentzkow, B Kelly, M Taddy - Journal of Economic Literature, 2019 - aeaweb.org
An ever-increasing share of human interaction, communication, and culture is recorded as digital text. We provide an introduction to the use of text as an input to economic research …
During the unprecedented coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) challenge, non- pharmaceutical interventions became a widely adopted strategy to limit physical movements …
HR Varian - Journal of economic perspectives, 2014 - aeaweb.org
Computers are now involved in many economic transactions and can capture data associated with these transactions, which can then be manipulated and analyzed …
X Yang, B Pan, JA Evans, B Lv - Tourism management, 2015 - Elsevier
The queries entered into search engines register hundreds of millions of different searches by tourists, not only reflecting the trends of the searchers' preferences for travel products, but …
L Einav, J Levin - Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Many believe that “big data” will transform business, government, and other aspects of the economy. In this article we discuss how new data may impact economic policy and …
Y Zhang, JD Fricker - Transport policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in widespread impacts in the transportation sector due to containment measures. To better manage transportation …
J Guzman, S Stern - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020 - aeaweb.org
Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity but also the initial quality of new ventures. Combining comprehensive business registries …