The Public and Political Economy Research Group hosts regular events, bringing together expertise from within our group and wider institutions and organisations.
‘Text-as-data’ in economics workshop 2026
This two-day workshop explored natural language processing methods currently used in economics and how these methods are and should be implemented.
Day 1: Thursday 16 July
| Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|
| Jiewei Li (University College London) | How does NCAA NIL Policy Reform Reshape Creator Monetisation in Collegiate Sports |
| Manuel Blasco (University of Bologna) | Headline Selection and Misleading Information |
| Juan S. Morales (Wilfrid Laurier University) | The Joe Rogan Podcast “by Night”: Public Health and the Dimming Reach of Influence |
| Elliot Motte (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) | Media Bias in Conflict Coverage |
| Irina Merkurieva (University of St Andrews) | Childhood Aspirations and Adult Outcomes |
| Daisuke Adachi (Aarhus University) | From Course Descriptions to Training Portfolios: Measuring the Content of Continuing Vocational Training with Danish Administrative Text Data |
| Pietro Panizza (MeToD and Università della Calabria) | Community Norms and Individual Positions in Focus Groups: Textas-Data Methods for Childcare and Parenting Research |
| Apurav Bhatiya (University of Birmingham) | From Modi’s India to Westminster: How Hindu Nationalism Shapes Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Abroad |
| Riccardo Graziani (KU Leuven) | Who Speaks for the People? Electoral Reforms, Parliamentary Speech, and Legislative Behavior in Belgium, 1880–1912 |
| Jesus Rodriguez (University of Nottingham) | Political Competition and Tax Expenditures: A Machine Learning Approach to 121 years of U.S. Laws |
| Milena Djourelova (University of Southern California) | Keynote: Political Slant in Immigration Coverage: Evolution, Diffusion, and Effects |
Day 2: Friday 17 July
| Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|
| Adam Brzezinski (LSE) | Narrative Entanglement |
| Mary Sanford (University of Bath) | Detecting Climate Change Position in Political Manifestos: A Comparative Study of AI Approaches |
| Elia Acciai (University of Turin & Collegio Carlo Alberto) | Blood Antiquities: What Images Reveal about the Market for Cultural Heritage |
| Lei Ge (Renmin University of China) | Are Economists Open to AI? Text as Data as Survey on Professional Sentiment and Academic Research Trends |
| Mirko Draca (University of Warwick) | Exploration and Exploitation in US Technological Change |
| Raphaël Wargon (Paris School of Economics) | The Life Cycle of Ideas |
| Daniel Li Chen (Institute for Advanced Study at Toulouse (IAST), Toulouse School of Economics) | Text as Data for Law and Economics: Measuring Institutions, Preferences, and AI Governance |