ECON5180 ECONOMICS AND DATA SCIENCE

This is a weekly reading group discussing recent literature that combines novel data with the new generation of tools from data science to answer questions in political economy, law and economics, and other topics in economics (e.g., economic history) and broader social sciences. We will discuss how and why machine learning works, in what way the new method and potentially new forms of data contribute to our knowledge, and new venues where deployment of such tools can be fruitful.