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Text as Data

2019; American Economic Association; Volume: 57; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1257/jel.20181020

2328-8175

Matthew Gentzkow, Bryan Kelly, Matt Taddy,

Computational and Text Analysis Methods

An ever-increasing share of human interaction, communication, and culture is recorded as digital text. We provide an introduction to the use of text as an input to economic research. We discuss the features that make text different from other forms of data, offer a practical overview of relevant statistical methods, and survey a variety of applications. (JEL C38, C55, L82, Z13)