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David Yang and Jie Zhou, speaking on “Political Pressure and the Direction of Research: Evidence from China’s Academia”


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 6th session features a conversation with David Yang and Jie Zhou speaking on Political Pressure and the Direction of Research: Evidence from China’s Academia (with Daron Acemoglu) on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT.


ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

David Y. Yang

David Y. Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER and a Global Scholar at CIFAR. David’s research focuses on political economy, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, and cultural economics. In particular, David studies the forces of stability and forces of changes in authoritarian regimes, drawing lessons from historical and contemporary China. David received a B.A. in Statistics and B.S. in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley, and PhD in Economics from Stanford.

Jie Zhou

Jie Zhou is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at MIT. Zhou’s research focuses on political economy, economic history, and development. In particular, Zhou empirically studies the role of institutions and diversity in socioeconomic development. She also adopts natural language processing to explore new data resources and analysis methods for economic research.


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