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...
Italian researcher from McGill University, Francesco Amodio, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled "Labor Market Power, Self-employment, and Development." His paper tries to compare the labor markets in lower-income countries with those of high-income countries. "there are few things that stand out: in poor countries, we typically see in the average local labor market a small number of organizations that are hiring workers, and at the same time a lot of workers pursue self-employment precisely because wages are low, or wages opportunity are scars."
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