This chapter will cover recent research in historical economics that uses ethnographic data and data from surveys and lab experiments. The study of historical economics, particularly outside of non-Western countries, has been constrained by availability of historical data. However, recent work...

Dark patterns (DP) consist of user interface design choices that manipulate the data subject’s decision-making process in a way detrimental to his or her privacy and beneficial to the service provider. An important part of the study of DP is understanding the cognitive biases they exploit. A...

I analyze anomalies in the data collected by the major COVID-19 data repositories. These anomalies are due to how the data is aggregated. I find that the method used tends to understate the rise in the infection rate, overstate the fall after the peak, and generate spurious peaks and drops. As a...

Often, model development starts with missing data treatment. For regulatory internal rating based (IRB) models, missing data raise data quality concerns around system and process whereas the randomness nature of missing is sometimes overlooked, resulting inappropriate choice of imputation...