Our 28th workshop features a conversation with Milan Quentelon “Spies” on November 12, 2024, from 9:30AM – 11:00AM 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
Milan Quentel is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. In his primary research agenda, he studies the economic implications of the climate change transition. A particular focus of his work is to understand the aggregate and redistributive welfare effects of renewable energy policies and to support policymakers in designing an effective and just climate transition. In a separate research agenda, he studies espionage using historical data from the Cold War to inform counter-espionage activities in the 21st century. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.
Steven J. Davis is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. 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. Davis hosts “Economics, Applied,” a podcast series sponsored by the Hoover Institution.
Erin Baggott Carter is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California, a faculty affiliate at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute, and a nonresident scholar at the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego. She has previously held fellowships at the CDDRL and Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. She received a PhD in political science from Harvard University.
