Publications by Akash
Econometrics : Propensity Score Matching And LASSO Machine Learning
1 Background: This assignment will take you through a \(\textbf{Propensity Score Matching}\) exercise. The example data contains test results of school children along with various characteristics. The key question is: Do catholic schools have an effect on student’s performance? The key issue is, of course, that students in catholic schools (“...
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Understanding Identification Via Differences-In-Differences
Part 1: Paper using randomized data: Impact of Class Size on Learning Download and go over this seminal paper by Alan Krueger. Krueger (1999) Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions QJE 114 (2) : 497-532 a. What is the causal link the paper is trying to reveal? ANSWER: The author is trying to explore the impact of class size on ...
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Web Scraping Zillow House Listings and Hedonic Pricing
Run a housing search We are using Zillow for house listings in Athens, Ga. We open the zillow website in our browser and search for any 1+ bedrooms in Athens, GA. This was the url of my search. The packages required are just the two below:S Data Construction : Scrape the results of your housing search This section includes the Bonus Task #1 whe...
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Discussion Thoughts On Algorithmic Fairness: An Economists Contribution
2020-02-26 22:37:45 Discussion Paper(s): Chap 2 Overview: What to takeaway? scientific notion of algorithmic & human bias and discrimination. how to detect & measure them? how to design fairer algorithmic solution. what the cost of fairness is for predictive accuracy and others? Bias By Analogy: Word Embeddings and Biases: - “Man Is to Comp...
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A discussion thought on an interesting application in Economics using Google Trends
Discussion Paper: Böhme, Gröger & Stöhr (JDE 2020) Reference: Böhme, M. H., Gröger, A., & Stöhr, T. (2020). Searching for a better life: Predicting international migration with online search keywords. Journal of Development Economics, 142, 102347. Click Here For The Paper! Overview: What to take away from this paper: Migration a heated...
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AlgorithmicPrivacy
2020-02-26 22:36:49 Discussion Paper(s): Chap 1 Overview Take Away: Privacy Preserving Data k-anonymous Differential Privacy TimeLine (Source: https://aircloak.com/history-of-data-anonymization/) How It Began? Massachusetts’ Group Insurance Commission", William Weld & Latanya Sweeney “But now that we know this, can the problem of priva...
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World Bank API Exploration With External Debt Stocks of BRICS
Introduction How India’s External Debt Stocks Stand Among The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, Chna and South Africa)? Overview In this research project I am exploring the World Bank’s recent report, “International Debt Statistic 2020” and focus on how India’s external debt has changed since India fully opened its economy in 1991 (called...
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TA AAEC 3580 (Spring 2020) Feb 14 2020
TA Micro Feb 14 2020 Akash [Economics: peregrination and exploration] 2/13/2020 Question 1.2 Chapter 5 Question : If the inverse demand function for toasters is \[p = 60-q \ \ ,\] what is the CONSUMER SUPRLUS if the price is 30? Answer: What do we know ? Demand Function \(Price = 30\) Consumer Surplus : [Economist]: monetary difference bet...
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Child Welfare Algorithm Bias
2020-02-26 22:45:48 Discussion Paper: Overview Predictive Risk Modelling: predict the likelihood of future adverse outcomes. Application: Child Mistreatment Screened-In Calls (Allegheny County, PA). Goal : Compare the current model with Authors’ recommendation. Understand the Predictive Bias associated with the algorithms. Where’s the Ne...
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Exploring Leaflet In R : A few Examples
AAEC8610 HW5 Option 2 : Leaflet in R. (Submitted to Dr. Filipski) Akash [If we have the moon and the night, we need to rest] 2020-02-09 17:04:06 Optional task 2: Interactive Maps with Leaflet This is theSecond task of the 5th Homework for the Ph.D. course AAEC8610 (Advanced Econometrics) with Dr. Mateusz Filipski. Here, I have used the packag...
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