Joop Adema, Kai Gehring, and Panu Poutvaara speaking on Immigrant Narratives.
The Hoover Institution hosts a seminar series on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis, co-organized by Steven J. Davis and Justin Grimmer. These seminars will feature applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to text as data to examine policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.
Our 15th meeting features a conversation with Joop Adema, Kai Gehring, and Panu Poutvaara on Immigrant Narratives on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT and the paper under discussion can be found here.
Joop Adema is a PhD student at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and the Ludwig Maximilian University (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) in Munich, Germany. Adema is interested in the economics of migration, with a focus on the role that media and digital technologies play in migration decisions, and how they affect attitudes towards migrants. Adema is currently working on a project with Kai Gehring and Panu Poutvaara to systematically study narratives about immigrants in printed regional media in Germany over the past twenty years.
Kai Gehring is professor for political economy and sustainable development in the Economics Department at the University of Bern. He is a member of the interdisciplinary Wyss Academy for Nature in Bern and a research professor associated with the Ifo Institute in Munich. He earned his PhD from the University of Goettingen (under advisor Axel Dreher) and his undergraduate degree from the University of Mannheim. He has taught at the University of Mannheim, Heidelberg University, the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern, and the University of Zurich, and has conducted research stays at Harvard, Cambridge, CESifo, Deakin University, and Stanford. He is a member of CESifo, the European Development Network, the Development Economics Committee of the German Economic Association, and the Globalization and Development research training group of the University of Göttingen and the University of Hannover. His main research interests are in political economy, development, and public economics, with a recent focus on sustainable development and the environment. His work combines developing theories based on an interdisciplinary approach and testing them rigorously using modern econometric methods, often with the help of novel administrative, text-based, geographical, or historical data.
Panu Poutvaara is professor of economics at the University of Munich, director of the Ifo Center for International Institutional Comparisons and Migration Research, and a member of Germany’s Expert Council on Integration and Migration. Poutvaara’s main research interests are migration, public economics, and political economics, with recent work on self-selection of emigrants, welfare effects and political consequences of immigration, refugee integration, and the role of beauty in politics. His work has been published in the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, among other journals. He is editor of the CESifo Economic Studies, a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Political Economy and of the Leadership Quarterly, and research fellow at CESifo, the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration. His team has written reports to the World Bank, the European Parliament, the French Senate, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria. His research has been covered in different media outlets, including The Economist, the New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post. He has given numerous seminar talks, including at Harvard, Princeton (Psychology Department), Stanford, UCL, Oxford, and Cambridge.
Steven J. Davis is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies business dynamics, labor markets, and public policy. He advises the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum and is co-creator of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices, the Survey of Business Uncertainty, and the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes.
Justin Grimmer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on American political institutions, elections, and developing new machine-learning methods for the study of politics.
