Text as Data

Matthew Gentzkow; Bryan Kelly; Matt Taddy

doi:10.1257/jel.20181020

Text as Data

Matthew Gentzkow¹; Bryan Kelly²; Matt Taddy³

¹ Stanford University · ² Yale University and AQR Capital Management. · ³ University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Journal of Economic Literature 2019

An ever-increasing share of human interaction, communication, and culture is recorded as digital text. We provide an introduction to the use of text as an input to economic research. We discuss the features that make text different from other forms of data, offer a practical overview of relevant statistical methods, and survey a variety of applications. (JEL C38, C55, L82, Z13)

DOI: 10.1257/jel.20181020
Volume: 57 (3)
Pages: 535-574
Language: en
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