Comparing deep neural network and econometric approaches to predicting the impact of climate change on agricultural yield
深度神经网络与计量方法预测气候变化对农业产量影响的比较
Summary Predicting the impact of climate change on crop yield is difficult, in part because the production function mapping weather to yield is high dimensional and nonlinear. We compare three approaches to predicting yields: (a) deep neural networks (DNNs), (b) traditional panel-data models, and (c) a new panel-data model that allows for unit and time fixed effects in both intercepts and slopes in the agricultural production function—made feasible by a new estimator called…