Political Language in Economics

16 May 2024

LLMs are going to reveal many of the world’s secrets: Does academic writing in economics reflect the political orientation of economists? We use machine learning to measure partisanship in academic economics articles. We predict observed political behavior of a subset of economists using the phrases from their academic articles, show good out-of-sample predictive accuracy, and […] The post Political Language in Economics appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
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Tyler Cowen

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