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This guide provides a practical introduction to parallel computing in economics. After a brief introduction to the basic ideas of parallelization, we show how to parallelize a prototypical application in economics using, on CPUs, Julia, Matlab, R, Python, C++-OpenMP, Rcpp–OpenMP, and C++-MPI,...
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This paper provides the first evidence on the earnings, employment and college enrollment effects of computers and … acquired skills from a randomized controlled trial providing computers to entering college students. We matched confidential … random provision of computers. The experiment does not provide evidence that computer skills have short- or medium …
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Recent technological changes have been characterized as “routine-substituting,” reducing demand for routine tasks but increasing it for analytical and service tasks. Little is known about how these changes have impacted immigration, or task specialization between immigrants and natives. In...
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different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is … used to interpret changes in the relative quantities, wages, and wage bill shares of workers by education in the aggregate … computer technology may `explain' as much as 30-50% of the increase in the rate of growth of the relative demand for more …
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be correlated with both job-related computer use and earnings. The estimates suggest that workers who use computers on … education, Finally, occupations that experienced greater growth in computer use between 1984 and 1989 also experienced above …
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This paper shows how to build algorithms that use graphics processing units (GPUs) installed in most modern computers …
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We propose a text-based method for measuring and analyzing the international propagation of uncertainty shocks at the firm level. We apply this method to estimate the impact of Brexit-related uncertainty and find widespread reverberations on listed firms in 81 countries. International firms most...
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