Mariana Zerpa (University of Leuvenin Florence) visited NCID to give a seminar entitled "Medicaid for middle-class families? Job loss and health insurance coverage of parents and children".
According to Zerpa, "When a worker loses his job, not only is exposed to loss of income and potentially other negative outcomes but also the loss of health insurance coverage for them and potentially for their kids as well." In the U.S there is a public health insurance program called Medicaid and is targeted towards low-income families: "
Maximiliano Sosa, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at University of Uppsala, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled "Legal uncertainty and its consequences: A natural language processing approach." Producing comparable measures across countries and time of legal uncertainty is very challenging. Our speaker explained that he has developed a new measure of legal uncertainty based on texts from laws:
“I’m analyzing the texts of the laws directly to produce a measure of unexpected changes in the...
Dalila Bernardino, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence) visited NCID to give a seminar entitled "The Effect of a Conditional Cash Transfer on Child Marriage: Evidence from Mexico." In her paper, she uses Mexican data to evaluate the effect of a conditional cash transfer program on child marriage. Since the late 90s, the program consisted of a transfer to poor mothers, provided their children attended school regularly.
The program led to increases in child marriage. Bernardino explained, "Th...