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...
Alan Manning, professor of economics at the London School of Economics, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled “The wage elasticity of recruitment.” The speaker explained that most economists think of labor markets as very competitive and that it’s very easy for workers to find another job if their employer treats them badly. It is believed that this competition protects workers against exploitation by employers.
According to Manning, it is not that simple: “Most of us don’t experience labor markets like that, finding j...