Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

This replication package contains the code required to reproduce the results in:
“The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing." Andrew Gar [...]

We study the effect of incarceration on wages, self-employment, and taxes and transfers in North Carolina and Ohio using two quasi-experimental research designs: disconti [...]

The rapid emergence of vaccines and therapeutics in response to the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic demonstrated the value of medical innovation. These advan [...]

The WHO recommends mass drug administration (MDA) for intestinal worm infections in areas with over 20% infection prevalence. Recent Cochrane meta-analyses endorse treatm [...]

Background: Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems can provide a range of benefits to users with regards to efficiency, reliability, costs and environmental impact. Fur [...]

A sender commissions a study to persuade a receiver but influences the report with some probability. We show that increasing this probability can benefit the receiver and [...]

Geophysicists examine and document the repercussions for the earth’s climate induced by alternative emission scenarios and model specifications. Using simplified approxim [...]

Rational inattention models characterize optimal decision-making in data-rich environments. In such environments, it can be costly to look carefully at all of the informa [...]

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This is the replication repository for the paper "Model averaging and double machine learning" by Achim Ahrens, Christian Hansen, Mark Schaffer and Thomas Wiemann (Journa [...]

This paper discusses pairing double/debiased machine learning (DDML) with stacking, a model averaging method for combining multiple candidate learners, to estimate struct [...]

This study aimed to examine the healthcare labour demand and supply elasticity regarding wage in the National Health Service (NHS) in England amid a labour crisis. A simu [...]

Microplastic particles are widespread in marine sediments and the abundance of the different types of particles vary widely. In this paper we demonstrate that salt marshe [...]

Data files for "Estimating a Social Cost of Carbon for Global Energy Consumption".

Findings of the paper can be replicated using these data files, along with co [...]

Misinformation represents a vital threat to the societal fabric of modern economies. While skills interventions to detect misinformation such as de-bunking and prebunking [...]

Sea level rise (SLR) may impose substantial economic costs to coastal communities worldwide, but characterizing its global impact remains challenging because SLR costs de [...]

In a Mean Field Game (MFG) each decision maker cares about the cross sectional distribution of the state and the dynamics of the distribution is generated by the agents [...]

We study the design of optimal mechanisms when the designer is uncertain both about the form of information held by the agents and also about which equilibrium will be pl [...]

Pandemic-era disruptions to schooling resulted in academic setbacks for many students. To help students catch up, school districts nationwide are implementing a range of [...]

Bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) is critical for stringent climate change mitigation but is commercially and technologically immature and resource [...]

This dissertation encompasses two chapters. The first chapter examines the spatial distribution of inventors in the U.S. economy and its implications for aggregate innova [...]

This paper investigates a novel dimension of heterogeneity in price adjustment dynamics: the relationship between a good’s relative price within its store-product categ [...]

Individuals are evaluated on their knowledge or expertise in a myriad of settings. Students take exams, job candidates are interviewed on their domain knowledge, consu [...]

This dissertation consists of three essays in the field of microeconomic theory. The first essay “A Revealed Preference Test for Probabilistic Sophistication” provide [...]

All of our choices and all that sets us apart are governed by what we can do, what we want to do, and what we know. This dissertation aims to quantify two of these channe [...]