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Measuring a Contract's Breadth: A Text Analysis
We use a computational linguistic algorithm to measure the topics covered in the text of school teacher contracts in Ohio. We
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Validating Readability and Complexity Metrics: A New Dataset of Before-and-After Laws
If algorithms are to be the policy analysts of the future, the policy metrics they produce will require careful validation. This
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Democratizing Policy Analytics with AutoML
Machine learning methods have made significant inroads in the social sciences. Computer algorithms now help scholars design cost
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How to Improve Data Validation in Five Steps
Social scientists are awash with new data sources. Though data preprocessing and storage methods have developed considerably
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Man vs. Machine
For researchers of state regulatory policy, the difficulty of gathering data has long presented an obstacle. This study compares
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Towards a Formalization of Policy Analytics
A relatively new field within economics, policy analytics has experienced rapid growth and yielded insights in many disciplines
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Using Machine Learning to Capture Heterogeneity in Trade Agreements
In this paper, we employ machine learning techniques to capture heterogeneity in free trade agreements. The tools of machine
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Red tape report card: Study shows modest but encouraging progress in reducing regulations across Canada
Laura Jones and Patrick McLaughlin report on the state of regulatory restrictions in Canada.Read it at the Financial Post.
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Remembering not-so-noble Prohibition experiment
Donald Boudreaux examines the total failure of Prohibition, on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 18th Amendment
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Idaho is the Least Regulated State and a Model for the Rest of the Country
Last month, Idaho Governor Brad Little announced that the state cut more than 1,800 pages of regulations in 2019, bringing its

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James Broughel on POTUS Channel
James Broughel appears on POTUS Channel Radio (Sirius XM) to discuss the regulatory power of government agencies without direct
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Announcing an Updated Edition of RegData Canada
In the past, economic research on regulation was difficult because there was not much data to quantitatively analyze regulatory

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A Snapshot of Washington, DC, Regulation in 2019
It would take an ordinary person almost three years to read the entire US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which contained
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A Snapshot of Massachusetts Regulation in 2019
It would take an ordinary person almost three years to read the entire US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which contained
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
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A Snapshot of Rhode Island Regulation in 2019
It would take an ordinary person almost three years to read the entire US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which contained
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A Snapshot of South Dakota Regulation in 2019
It would take an ordinary person almost three years to read the entire US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which contained
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A Snapshot of Nevada Regulation in 2019
It would take an ordinary person almost three years to read the entire US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which contained
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A Snapshot of North Dakota Regulation in 2019
It would take an ordinary person almost three years to read the entire US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which contained