應用個體研究群讀書會 Taiwan Applied Micro Study Group 

Time: 12:15-14:15, Friday or Wendesday

Place: B110, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica

Reading Materials

•  6/2

  • An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R 

    • Presenter: 張豐瑾

    • Chapter 8.1 & 8.3.1 to 8.3.2

    • Video

    • Slides

  • An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R 

    • Presenter: 李怡辰

    • Chapter 8.2 & 8.3.3 to 8.3.5

    • Video

    • Slides

• 6/14 (週三, 12:15-14:15)

  • Seeing beyond the Trees Using Machine Learning to Estimatethe Impact of Minimum Wageson Labor Market Outcomes

  • Tree-based ML in R

    • Presenter: 葉秀軒

    • Video

    • Slides

  • Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests

  • Causal Forest in R

    • Presenter: 楊于晨

    • Section 1,  Section 2, and Section 5

    • Video 1, Video 2, and Video 3

    • Slides

• 6/28 (週三, 12:15-14:15)

  • Using Causal Forests to Predict Treatment Heterogeneity: An Application to Summer Jobs

  • The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil

    • Presenter: 林巧思

    • Video

    • Slides

  • Transparency and Deliberation Within the FOMC: A Computational Linguistics Approach

    • Presenter: 高瑋宏

    • Video

    • Slides

• 7/14

  • Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care

    • Presenter: 蕭宇良

    • Slides

  • Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning

    • Presenter: 張翔

    • Video

    • Slides

• 8/2 (週三, 12:15-14:15)

  • Air Filters, Pollution, and Student Achievement

  • Spatial Analysis with R

  • R as GIS for Economists 

    • Presenter: 俞凱翔

    • Spatial Analysis: Chapter 4-5

    • R as GIS: Chapter 2-3

    • Slides

  • The Long Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades

  • R as GIS for Economists

    • Presenter: 吳京

    • R as GIS: Chapter1 (Section 6)

    • Slides

• 8/30 (週三, 12:15-14:15)

  • Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa 

  • R as GIS for Economists

    • Presenter: 黃耀正

    • R as GIS: Chapter1 (Section 7)

    • R as GIS: Chapter 4-5

    • Slides

  • The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development

  • R as GIS for Economists

    • Presenter: 張翔竣

    • R as GIS: Chapter1 (Section 8)

    • R as GIS: Chapter 4-5

    • Slides