Calendrier du 05 octobre 2021
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 05/10/2021 de 18:00 à 19:00
CHERITEL Côme (PSE)
A stylized model for energy, population, economy and the environment
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 05/10/2021 de 17:00 à 18:15
On line
MACOURS Karen (PSE & CEPR)
Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years
écrit avec with M. Caridad Araujo
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 05/10/2021 de 14:45 à 16:15
Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405
MéJEAN Isabelle (Science Po)
Supply shocks in supply chains: Evidence from the early lockdown in China
écrit avec Raphaël Lafrogne-Joussier et Julien Martin
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 05/10/2021 de 12:30 à 13:30
R1.09
WIDMER Philine (PSE)
Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives
écrit avec Elliott Ash, Germain Gauthier
Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives -- the stories in fiction, politics, and life -- shape beliefs, behavior, and government policies. This paper provides a novel, unsupervised method to quantify latent narrative structures in text, drawing on computational linguistics tools for clustering coherent entity groups and capturing relations between them. After validating the method, we provide an application to the U.S. Congressional Record to analyze political and economic narratives in recent decades. Our analysis highlights the dynamics, sentiment, polarization, and interconnectedness of narratives in political discourse.