10 Text as Data

Readings

Text as Data the paper by Gentzkow, Kelly, and Taddy

Text as Data the book is also great, but beyond the scope of this course.

Text Mining with R: 1 and 3

Who Invented Instrumental Variable Regression? by James Stock and Francesco Trebbi

Lecture

Slides from Lecture 10

Lab

The objective of this lab is to identify words that allow us to differentiate between NBER working papers from the Asset Pricing program and those from the Children and Families program. An R template for the lab is available here, and a Python version of the template is available here.