MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Least Squares after Model Selection in High-Dimensional Sparse Models 

      Belloni, Alexandre; Chernozhukov, Victor (Cambridge, MA: Dept. of Economics, M.I.T., 2009-01-04)
      In this paper we study post-model selection estimators which apply ordinary least squares (ols) to the model selected by first-step penalized estimators, typically lasso. It is well known that lasso can estimate the ...

    • Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, & Infant Mortality in India 

      Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011-07-01)
      Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India’s environmental ...

    • Zombie lending and depressed restructuring in Japan 

      Caballero, Ricardo J.; Hoshi, Takeo; Kashyap, A. K. (Cambridge, MA : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2006)