We have a look at what Propensity Score Matching is in Econometrics. And delve into LASSO Machine Learning Method to understand selection on observable and see how it can be used in PSM.

How is ML & AI being Used for COVID-19 /Coronavirus and what are the Ethical Challenges?

In this presentation we look at Douglas Almond 2006 JPE paper that examines the fetal origins hypothesis of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Adult Socio-Economic Outcomes

This task examines Carpenter & Dobkin (AEJ:AE, 2009) analysis of Minimum Legal Drinking Age on mortality risk. We explore regression discontinuity econometrics framework to see the effect of the cut-off point of age 21 and its effect on mortality risk.

In this task we look at seminal Economics paper that examine a causal effect to understand identification and differences-in-differences technique. [Submitted to Dr. Mateusz Filipski for AAEC 8610]

In this task you will observe web-scraping of Athens Real Estate Market as of April 1, 2020. After creating the data-frame hedonic pricing OLS regression is estimated and discussion about how the model can be improved.

In this discussion thoughts, I am looking at the concept of "algorithmic fairness" from Kearns & Roth . What you can take away : There is no way that an algorithm will do all the work for you. Human Judgement will always matter!

Bohme, Stroger and Stohr (JDE 2020) show that Google Trends Index , a measure of migration intention, is a good predictor for international migration. Here, I have laid out a few thoughts on this very interesting paper and hope to learn more about Google Trends Application.

Thoughts On Algorithmic Privacy. From Latanya Sweeney to Cynthia Dwork , the pioneering women in privacy-preserving technology.

In this economic analysis you will see what the Google Trends API shows about how Business Cycles impact the search hits for : Unemployment, Medicaid, Health Insurance, And Food Stamps in the USA since 2004 to present date. Findings: Recession spiked the search for unemployment and as the economy recovered it started falling down.

In this project we use the World Bank API in R {library(wbstats)} to explore how the external debt stocks (in current USD and % of Gross National Income (GNI)) of India compares to the BRICS countries [i.e. Brazil, Russia, India , China and South Africa]. The numbers are staggering but, historically, India has performed well to keep its head well above the water. India's external debt stands at 20% of GNI as of 2018.

Lab session Friday, Feb 14 2020 ,- A few questions from Perloff to go over. Best of Luck and study hard . Economics is FUN!

This study are notes and thoughts on algorithms used in child welfare screening process.

This Is Option 2 of Dr. Filipski's AAEC 8610 HW5. Here we are exploring Leaflet and learn how interactive maps work

This is a part of Dr. Filipski's AAEC 8610 HW5 [Option 1]. In this we learn the application of plotting data on maps. So, we are plotting the outcomes of the US Presidential Outcomes from 1976-2016 for Democrats and Republicans. We used only the "library(maps)" package.

This is a Homework assignment that replicates New Yorker's graphs on Piketty's Capital . Please read disclaimer before your read through.

The following explores R Markdown features through a text analysis of The United States' Presidents' State of the Union Addresses since George Washington. This was a part of Dr. Filipski's AAEC 8610 Homework 3.