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For What It’s Worth: Measuring Land Value in the Era of Big Data and Machine Learning

 

 

This paper develops a new method for valuing land, a key asset on a nation’s balance sheet. The method first employs an unsupervised machine learning method, kmeans clustering, to discretize unobserved heterogeneity, which we then combine with a supervised learning algorithm, gradient boosted… Read more

By Scott Wentland, Gary Cornwall, Jeremy G. Moulton
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Consumption Zones

 

 

Local area data are important to many economic questions, but most local area data are reported using political units, such as counties, which often do not match economic units, such as product markets. Commuting zones (CZs) group counties into local labor markets. However, CZs are not the most… Read more

By Andrea Batch, Benjamin R. Bridgman, Abe C. Dunn, Mahsa Gholizadeh
Published

Proof of Concept for a U.S. Air Emissions Physical Flows Account

 

 

Measuring the physical flows of resources and waste between the economy and environment is a central component of environmental-economic accounting as outlined in the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), the United Nations standard for environmental accounting.

This paper… Read more

By Matthew Chambers
Published

Developing a National Measure of the Economic Contributions of the Bioeconomy

 

 

In recent years, interest in biotechnology, biomanufacturing, and the bioeconomy has grown steadily. Researchers in the United States and other countries have sought to measure the bioeconomy and have developed a variety of definitions and approaches for doing so. Executive Order 14081, issued… Read more

By Tina Highfill, Matthew Chambers
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