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...