Machine Labor.

Autor/inn/en	Angrist, Joshua; Frandsen, Brigham
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Machine Labor. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Maschinenarbeit.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2020), 62 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 26584
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w26584
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Schätzung; Künstliche Intelligenz; Bildungsertrag; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Arbeitsökonomie; Hochschulbildung; Studium; Privathochschule; Prognose
Abstract	"Machine learning (ML) is mostly a predictive enterprise, while the questions of interest to labor economists are mostly causal. In pursuit of causal effects, however, ML may be useful for automated selection of ordinary least squares (OLS) control variables. We illustrate the utility of ML for regression-based causal inference by using lasso to select control variables for estimates of effects of college characteristics on wages. ML also seems relevant for an instrumental variables (IV) first stage, since the bias of two-stage least squares can be said to be due to over-fitting. Our investigation shows, however, that while ML-based instrument selection can improve on conventional 2SLS estimates, split-sample IV and LIML estimators do better. In some scenarios, the performance of ML-augmented IV estimators is degraded by pretest bias. In others, nonlinear ML for covariate control creates artificial exclusion restrictions that generate spurious findings. ML does better at choosing control variables for models identified by conditional independence assumptions than at choosing instrumental variables for models identified by exclusion restrictions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2020/3