The Value of Data for Prediction Policy Problems: Evidence from Antibiotic Prescribing
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Keywords
Prediction policy; data combination; machine learning; antibiotic prescribing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
- C55 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2021-04-05 (Big Data)
- NEP-CMP-2021-04-05 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2021-04-05 (Health Economics)
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