Our 30th workshop features a conversation with Tianyi Wang on “McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression: Evidence from Hollywood” on January 29, 2025, from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT.
The Hoover Institution Workshop on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis showcases applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to analyze text as data for examining policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Tianyi Wang is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. I work primarily at the intersection of political economy and economic history. My current research examines the impact of media on society and politics, focusing on historical American settings. Beyond that, I am also interested in health economics and applied microeconomics more broadly, in both historical and modern contexts. I am a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an IZA Research Affiliate, and a faculty affiliate of U of Toronto's People's History Lab and Forward Society Lab. I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh and my B.A. from Colgate University. Before coming to Toronto, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) and at Princeton University's Industrial Relations Section.
Steven J. Davis is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Hoover Institution, and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for more than 35 years, including service as deputy dean of the faculty. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, senior adviser to the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, advisor to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, elected fellow of the Society of Labor Economists,IZA Research Fellow, and senior academic fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. He hosts Economics, Applied – a video podcast series sponsored by the Hoover Institution. Davis is a co-creator of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices, the Survey of Business Uncertainty, the U.S. Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes, the Global Survey of Working Arrangements, the Work-from-Home Map project, and the Stock Market Jumps project. He cofounded and co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum, held annually in Singapore."
Erin Baggott Carter is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. She specializes in Chinese politics and propaganda. Her first book, Propaganda in Autocracies (Cambridge University Press) explores how political institutions determine propaganda strategies based on a global corpus of state-run newspapers. Her current book project, Changing Each Other, explores how China and the United States pursue their national security goals by influencing each other’s domestic politics. Dr. Carter is also a faculty affiliate at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and a nonresident scholar at UC San Diego’s 21st Century China Center. Her work has been published in leading academic journals and featured by major media outlets. She holds a PhD in political science from Harvard University.
