Nikita Melnikov, profesor asistente de Economía en NOVA School of Business and Economics en Lisboa, visitó el NCID para impartir un seminario titulado "Mobile Internet and Political Polarization". Melnikov explicó que su investigación trata de estudiar como ha afectado Internet y las redes sociales a la polarización política en Estados Unidos. Analiza cómo la expansión del 3G, que permitió a los usuarios navegar libremente por la red desde sus teléfonos inteligentes, afectó a las opiniones ideológicas y ...
Mirko Draca, professor at Warwick University, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled “The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of U.S. Campaign Contributions.” Draca explained that his research tries to study whether politicians in the U.S. can use social media, specifically Twitter, as a viable tool for raising campaign donations. According to the professor, he runs this kind of simple regression with daily campaign contributions on the left-hand side of the regression and then the daily likes on Twitter on the right-hand side: “T...
Itzel De Haro (University of Wisconsin–Madison) visited NCID to give a seminar entitled “The U.S. opioid crisis and its impact on Mexico’s drug cartel violence.” In her presentation, she explained her investigation: how a recent decline in the demand for heroin affects violence in Mexico, specifically in municipalities that produce avocados. “Based on news reports, these cartels have started diversifying out of the production and distribution of illegal drugs and targeting avocado farmers and packing houses in Mexico. In addition, they ask for ext...