Details about Achim Ahrens

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Short-id: pah173

Working Papers

2020

1. A review of the methodologies used in compiling owner-occupiers’ housing indices
   Papers, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) View citations (1)

2019

2. Iassopack: Model Selection and Prediction with Regularized Regression in Stata
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   Also in Papers, arXiv.org (2019) View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article in Stata Journal (2020)
3. Price regulation, inflation, and nominal rigidity in housing rents
   Papers, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) View citations (1)

2018

4. LASSOPACK and PDSLASSO: Prediction, model selection and causal inference with regularized regression
   London Stata Conference 2018, Stata Users Group

2015

5. Civil conflicts in Africa: Climate, economic shocks, nighttime lights and spill-over effects
   SEEC Discussion Papers, Spatial Economics and Econometrics Centre, Heriot Watt University

Journal Articles

2020

1. Commuting across the Irish border
   Economics Letters, 2020, 190, (C)
2. lassopack: Model selection and prediction with regularized regression in Stata
   Stata Journal, 2020, 20, (1), 176-235 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper (2019)

2019

3. Changes in Land Cover and Urban Sprawl in Ireland From a Comparative Perspective Over 1990–2012
   Land, 2019, 8, (1), 1-14 View citations (5)

2015

4. Civil Conflicts, Economic Shocks and Night-time Lights
   Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2015, 21, (4), 433-444 View citations (1)
5. Do execution moratoriums increase homicide? Re-examining evidence from Illinois
   Applied Economics, 2015, 47, (31), 3243-3257 View citations (1)
6. Two-Step Lasso Estimation of the Spatial Weights Matrix
   Econometrics, 2015, 3, (1), 1-28 View citations (11)

2012

7. Conditionality or specificity? Bulgaria and Romania's economic transition performance in comparative perspective
   Post-Communist Economies, 2012, 24, (2), 291-307 View citations (2)

Software Items

2019

1. LASSOPACK: Stata module for lasso, square-root lasso, elastic net, ridge, adaptive lasso estimation and cross-validation
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (13)
2. PDSLASSO: Stata module for post-selection and post-regularization OLS or IV estimation and inference
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (5)