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Text as Data
DOI:10.1257/jel.20181020.png)
Abstract
En 中文
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. We discuss the features that make text different from other forms of data, offer a practical overview of relevant statistical methods, and survey a variety of applications.
Keywords:
VARIABLE SELECTION
INFORMATION-CONTENT
MEDIA
REGRESSION
INFERENCE
LASSO
AUTHORSHIP
BOOTSTRAP
ESTIMATOR
SENTIMENT
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