, four regularization techniques- the Standard lasso, Adaptive lasso, the minimum Schwarz Bayesian information criterion … lasso, and the Elasticnet are trained based on a dataset containing 86 covariates of financial development for the period … literacy are crucial for financial sector development in Africa. Evidence from the Partialing-out lasso instrumental variable …

variants of the Lasso estimator from the machine learning literature.In addition to least squares, we also apply robust and …

robustness of the proposed variable selection method against extant benchmarks such as univariate random forest (RF) and LASSO …