Beatrice Ferrario and Stefanie Stantcheva speaking on "Eliciting People’s First-Order Concerns: Text Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Questions"
The Hoover Institution announces a new seminar series on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis, co-organized by Steven J. Davis and Justin Grimmer. These seminars will feature applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to text as data to examine policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.
Our 10th session features Beatrice Ferrario and Stefanie Stantcheva speaking on Eliciting People’s First-Order Concerns: Text Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Questions on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Stefanie Stantcheva is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard and founder of the Social Economics Lab. She studies the taxation of firms and individuals, as well as how people understand, perceive, and form their attitudes towards public policies. Her work has centered around the long-lasting effects of tax policy – on innovation, education, and wealth. Recently, she has studied how R&D policies can be improved to foster innovation, how income and corporate taxes have shaped innovation over the 20th century, and how student loans can be structured to improve access to education. She has also explored people’s attitudes towards taxation, health care, immigration policies, environmental policies, and social mobility using large-scale Social Economics Surveys and Experiments. Stefanie has received an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan fellowship, Carnegie fellowship, the 2019 Best Young French Economist Prize, the 2020 Elaine Bennett Research Prize in Economics, the 2021 Maurice Allais Prize in Economics, and the 2021 Calvo-Armengol prize in Economics. She completed her Ph.D. in Economics at MIT in 2014 and was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows 2014-2016 before joining the Harvard Department of Economics in July 2016. She is currently co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics and member of the French Council of Economic Advisers.
Beatrice Ferrario is a PhD student in Economics at Harvard University and a Research Fellow in the Social Economics Lab. She holds a Bachelor Degree and a Master of Science in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University. Her research interests focus primarily on public economics and labor economics.
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