Digital economics

A Goldfarb, C Tucker - Journal of economic literature, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced
the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data. Research on digital economics …

Machine learning in agricultural and applied economics

H Storm, K Baylis, T Heckelei - European Review of Agricultural …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This review presents machine learning (ML) approaches from an applied economist's
perspective. We first introduce the key ML methods drawing connections to econometric …

Who left riding transit? Examining socioeconomic disparities in the impact of COVID-19 on ridership

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 …

Text as data

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 …

A big-data driven approach to analyzing and modeling human mobility trend under non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19 pandemic

S Hu, C Xiong, M Yang, H Younes, W Luo… - … Research Part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
During the unprecedented coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) challenge, non-
pharmaceutical interventions became a widely adopted strategy to limit physical movements …

Big data: New tricks for econometrics

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 …

Forecasting Chinese tourist volume with search engine data

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 …

The data revolution and economic analysis

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 …

Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on non-motorized transportation: A Bayesian structural time series model

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 …

The state of American entrepreneurship: New estimates of the quantity and quality of entrepreneurship for 32 US States, 1988–2014

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 …