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OLS and Lasso for wage prediction


An important question in labor economics is what determines the wage of workers. This is a causal question, but we can begin to investigate it from a predictive perspective. In the following wage example, 𝑌 is the (log) hourly wage of a worker and 𝑋 is a vector of worker's characteristics, e.g., education, experience, gender.