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Mining Meaning: Measurement Error in AI-Assisted Literature Reviews
Jeffrey D. Michler, Kieran Douglas, Anna Josephson
Researchers increasingly use generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), to automate tasks across the research pipeline. We study the reliability of these tools at th…
Treatment Geometry and Causal Identification with Earth Observation Data
Jeffrey D. Michler, Anna Josephson, Elinor Benami +7
A central task in conducting impact evaluations is determining who or what was exposed to a treatment, when, and to what degree. These questions can be especially complex in geospa…
The uses (and misuses) of Earth Observation data for weather and vegetation analysis
Elinor Benami, Jeffrey D. Michler, Anna Josephson +2
Integrating gridded Earth observation and weather data into impact evaluations holds great promise. These data allow researchers to capture environmental context, external shocks,…
Food Without Fire: Nutritional and Environmental Impacts from a Solar Stove Field Experiment
Laura E. McCann, Jeffrey D. Michler, Maybin Mwangala +2
Population pressure is speeding the rate of deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa, increasing the cost of biomass cooking fuel, which over 80 percent of the population relies upon. H…
The Mismeasure of Weather: Using Remotely Sensed Earth Observation Data in Economic Context
Anna Josephson, Jeffrey D. Michler, Talip Kilic +1
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation (EO) data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are c…
Coping or Hoping? Livelihood Diversification and Food Insecurity in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ann M. Furbush, Anna Josephson, Talip Kilic +1
We examine the impact of livelihood diversification on food insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis uses household panel data from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in whic…
Impact Evaluations in Data Poor Settings: The Case of Stress-Tolerant Rice Varieties in Bangladesh
Jeffrey D. Michler, Dewan Abdullah Al Rafi, Jonathan Giezendanner +3
New technologies are sometimes introduced at times or in places that lack the necessary data to conduct a well-identified impact evaluation. We develop a methodology that combines…
Privacy Protection, Measurement Error, and the Integration of Remote Sensing and Socioeconomic Survey Data
Jeffrey D. Michler, Anna Josephson, Talip Kilic +1
When publishing socioeconomic survey data, survey programs implement a variety of statistical methods designed to preserve privacy but which come at the cost of distorting the data…
Recent Developments in Inference: Practicalities for Applied Economics
Jeffrey D. Michler, Anna Josephson
We provide a review of recent developments in the calculation of standard errors and test statistics for statistical inference. While much of the focus of the last two decades in e…
Differentiation in a Two-Dimensional Market with Endogenous Sequential Entry
Jeffrey D. Michler, Benjamin M. Gramig
Previous research on two-dimensional extensions of Hotelling's location game has argued that spatial competition leads to maximum differentiation in one dimensions and minimum diff…
Risk, Agricultural Production, and Weather Index Insurance in Village India
Jeffrey D. Michler, Frederi G. Viens, Gerald E. Shively
We investigate the sources of variability in agricultural production and their relative importance in the context of weather index insurance for smallholder farmers in India. Using…
Estimating the Impact of Weather on Agriculture
Jeffrey D. Michler, Anna Josephson, Talip Kilic +1
This paper quantifies the significance and magnitude of the effect of measurement error in remote sensing weather data in the analysis of smallholder agricultural productivity. The…