Online Seminar in Economics + Data Science
Hosted @ ETH Zürich | On Zoom (Meeting ID 687 4823 2997)
Seminar Details
- Meetings: Weekly on Thursdays, 16h-17h CET (* indicates special time)
- Format: One hour of presentation with questions allowed throughout.
- Topics: Research in Economics and Social Sciences using or related to Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence.
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If you are interested in presenting in one of our sessions, send your proposal to Elliott Ash (ash@ethz.ch), Claudia Marangon (cmarangon@fas.harvard.edu), or Gianmarco Torchetti (gtorchetti@ethz.ch)
Current Schedule
Fall 2025
(now organizing)
September 11th, 18h-19h CET*
Maximilian Kasy, University of Oxford
October 23rd, 16h-17h CET
Joachim Baumann, Bocconi University
October 30th, 16h-17h CET
Germain Gauthier, Bocconi University
"The Political Effects of X’s Recommender Algorithm"
November 13th, 16h-17h CET
Brian Jabarian, University of Chicago
November 27th, 16h-17h CET
Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol
December 11th, 16h-17h CET
TBA
December 18th, 16h-17h CET
TBA
Previous Talks
2024
January 25th, 16h-17h CET
Arpit Gupta, NYU Stern School of Business
February 1st, 16h-17h CET
Sergio Galletta, ETH Zürich
"Innovations in Public Finance: Applying AI to Municipal Budget Analysis"
February 8th, 16h-17h CET
Svetlana Bryzgalova, London Business School
March 7th, 16h-17h CET
Marco Le Moglie, Università Cattolica in Milan
"Explainable machine predictions and organized crime infiltration in local governments"
March 14th, 15h-16h CET*
Roland Rathelot, ENSAE
March 21st, 16h-17h CET
Mario F. Carillo, UPF
April 18th, 16h-17h CET
Maiting Zhuang, Stockholm School of Economics
April 25th, 10h-11h CET*
Mallory Avery, Monash University
May 9th, 16h-17h CET
Jared Rubin, Chapman University
May 30th, 16h-17h CET
Kate Prytkova, University of Sussex
[hybrid]
June 13th, 16h-17h CET
Sune Lehmann, Technical University of Denmark
June 27th, 16h-17h CET
Tobias Wekhof, ETH / UZH
2023
January 26th, 16h-17h CET
Vitaly Meursault, FRB Philadelphia
"One Threshold Doesn't Fit All: Tailoring Machine Learning Predictions of Consumer Default for Lower-Income Areas"
February 2nd, *17h-18h CET*
Jinfei Sheng, UC Irvine
"Do Mutual Funds Value Their Talk? A Textual Analysis of Risk Disclosure by Mutual Funds"
February 9th, 16h-17h CET
Mateo Sero, Antwerp
"Don't Stop Me Now: Gender Attitudes in Academic Seminars Through Machine Learning"
February 16th, 16h-17h CET
Kai Gehring, University of Bern
"Analyzing Narratives with the Character-Role-Framework and Supervised Machine Learning: The Virality of Climate Change Tweets"
February 23rd, 16h-17h CET
Akshima Banerjee, Chicago Booth
"The Language That Drives Investment: A Systematic Large-scale Analysis of Headline Experiments"
March 23rd, 16h-17h CET
Aakash Kalyani, Boston University
"The diffusion of disruptive technologies"
March 30th, 16h-17h CET
Joachim Voth and Guohui Jiang, University of Zurich
"Education and the Triumph of Eugenics in the United States"
April 3rd-4th, 5th MWZ Text As Data Workshop
May 4th, 16h-17h CET
Brandon Stewart, Princeton
"Strengthening Propaganda and the Limits of Media Commercialization in China: Evidence from Millions of Newspaper Articles"
May 11th, 16h-17h CET
"Journalist ideology and the production of news: Evidence from movers"
September 28th, 16h-17h CET
Hans Gaebler, Harvard
"Detecting discrimination in algorithm and policy design"
October 5th, 18h-19h CET *
Molly Roberts, UC San Diego
"The Impact of US-China Tensions on US Science"
October 19th, 16h-17h CET
Vlad Avetian, University Paris-Dauphine - PSL
"Ideas in Motion: The Impact of Russian Literature"
November 9th, 16h-17h CET
Kunal Sachdeva, Rice University
"Inventor Gender and Patent Undercitation"
November 30th, 16h-17h CET
Maria Antoniak, Allen Institute for AI
"Where Do People Tell Stories Online? Story Detection Across Online Communities"
December 14th, 14h-15h CET*
Piera Bello, Bergamo University
"Research Similarity and Women in Academia"
2022
January 27th, 18h-19h CET*
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Google Research
"NLP and Society: Undesirable Societal Biases as Barriers to Those in the Margins"
February 10, 15h-16h CET*
Fiona Shen-Bayh, William and Mary
February 17-18
March 10th, 18h-19h CET*
Aniket Kesari, NYU
"What goes on in the Courtroom? Audio-Visual Analysis of Courtroom Footage"
(Joint with Online Workshop in Computational Analysis of Law, email ashe@ethz.ch for the zoom link)
(Joint with Online Workshop in Computational Analysis of Law, email ashe@ethz.ch for the zoom link)
March 17th, 16h-17h CET
Julian Dyer, Exeter
"Loanwords: Data on the origins and spread of cultural characteristics"
March 31st, 16h-17h CET
Evan Rose, Chicago
April 7th, 1530h-1630h CET*
Gaia Rubera, Bocconi
April 14th, 16h-17h CET
Nathan Lane, Oxford
April 28th, 16h-17h CET
Tarek Hassan, Boston
May 5, 16h-17h CET
Jack Mountjoy, Chicago
"On the use of outcome tests for detecting bias in decision-making"
Monday May 9th, 12h-13h CET (* special day/time)
Keyon Vafa, Columbia
May 19, 16h-17h CET
Mehdi Shadmehr, UNC
"Measuring the tolerance of the state: Theory and application to protests"
June 16th, 16h-17h CET
Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman, Norwegian School of Economics
"Will More Women in Power Close the Gender Gap? Female Inventors and The Drivers of the Gender Patenting Gap"
Tuesday, June 21st, 16h-17h CET (* special day)
Lena Song, Columbia & ETH
"The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Media Content on Racial Attitudes"
August 25th, 18h-19h CET*
Carlos Cinelli, University of Washington
"Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning"
September 1st
September 8th, 16h-17h CET
Simon DeDeo, Carnegie Mellon
"The Diversity of Argument-Making in the Wild: from Assumptions and Definitions to Causation and Anecdote in Reddit's 'Change My View'"
September 15th, 16h-17h CET
Sabrina Howell, NYU
"Automation in Small Business Lending Can Reduce Racial Disparities: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program"
September 22nd, 16h-17h CET
Jason Sockin, U.S. Treasury
"Show me the amenity: Are higher-paying firms better all around?"
September 29th, 16h-17h CET
Joonas Tuhkuri, Stockholm
"New Evidence on the Effect of Technology on Employment and Skill Demand"
October 6th
October 13th
October 27th, 16h-17h CET
Andy Cao, Texas A&M
"Does Media Coverage of Hate-motivated Mass Shootings Generate More Hatred?"
November 30th, 12h-1315h CET
Erna Ytsma, Carnegie Mellon
* also in person @ IFW E42
"Workload, Time Use and Efficiency", with Austin Sudbury (CMU) and George Westerman (MIT)
"Workload, Time Use and Efficiency", with Austin Sudbury (CMU) and George Westerman (MIT)
2021
January 14th, 15h-16h CET
Caroline LePennec (HEC Montreal)
"Money and Ideology: Evidence from French Legislative elections" (with Julia Cagé and Elisa Mougin)
February 4th, 11h-12h CET
Marica Valente (ETH Zurich)
"Heterogeneous effects of waste pricing policies"
February 18th-19th, 830h-11h
Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop
February 25th, 11h-12h CET
Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich)
"Genes, Pubs, and Drinks: Gene-environment interplay and alcohol licensing policy in the United Kingdom" (with Christian Zuend, UZH)
March 4th, 11h-12h CET
Marion Monnet, PSE
"Gendered Teacher Feedback, Student Math Performance, and Enrollment Outcomes" (with Pauline Charousset, PSE)
March 11th, 11h-12h CET
Anthony Strittmatter (CREST)
"Optimal Targeting in Fundraising" (with Tobias Cagala, Ulrich Glogowsky, Johannes Rincke)
March 25th, 1230h-14h CET (joint with Zurich CIS)
Max Winkler (UZH)
"Cognitive Diversity and Innovation"
March 31th, 1615-1745h CET (joint with ETH CLE)
Alex Kasy (Oxford)
"The social impact of algorithmic decision making: Economic perspectives"
April 1st, 11h-12h CET
Huyen Nguyen (Hamburg)
"The great persuasion divide: Gender Disparities in Debate Speeches and Evaluations"
April 8th, 11h-12h CET
Tobias Wekhof (ETH)
"The Narrative of Energy Efficiency and Its Implication for Policy Targeting" (with Sebastien Houde)
April 14th, 1615-1745h CET (joint with ETH CLE)
Jens Ludwig (Chicago Harris)
"AI as scientific discovery engine"
April 15th, 11h-12h CET
Nandan Rao (UPF)
"The Potential of Digital Ad Platforms for Efficient Sampling and Experimentation"
April 21st, 1615-1745h CET (joint with ETH CLE)
Dhanya Sridhar (Columbia)
"Beyond prediction: NLP for causal inference"
April 22nd, 16h-17h CET
Domonkos Vamossy (Amazon)
"Towards fair credit allocation" (with Stefania Albanesi)
April 29th, 11h-12h CET
Carlo Schwarz (Bocconi)
"Visual Bias in Newspapers" (with Elliott Ash and Ruben Durante)
May 6th, 1430h-1530h CET
David Zentler-Munro and Doruk Cengiz
"Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes" (with Arin Dube and Attila Lindner)
May 12th, 1615-1745h CET (joint with ETH CLE)
Megan T. Stevenson (Virginia)
"Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans"
May 13th
Online Workshop in Computational Analysis of Law, Mini-Conference
May 20th, 16h-17h CET
Ashesh Rambachan (Harvard)
"An economic approach to regulating algorithms" (with Jon Kleinberg, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan)
May 27th
Toulouse Conference on Big Data in Economic History
June 3rd, 11h-12h CET
Vardges Levonyan (UZH)
"BBC, Brexit, and Balanced Reporting" (with Greg Crawford)
June 10th, 12h-13h CET
Melissa Newham (KU Leuven)
"Heterogeneous Effects of Drug Firms' Payments to Physicians"
July 1st, 11h-12h CET
Julia Bingler, ETH Zurich
July 15th, 11h-12h CET
Josef Valvoda (Cambridge)
"What About the Precedent: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Common Law"
July 22nd, 18h-1915h CET ⚠
David Arnold, UCSD
August 12th, 15h-16h CET ⚠
David Yang, Harvard
"Political pressure and the direction of research: Evidence from China's Academia"
(with Daron Acemoglu and Jie Zhou)
(with Daron Acemoglu and Jie Zhou)
August 19th, 11h-12h CET
Roberto Gomez Cram, London Business School
"Using social media to identify the effects of Congressional partisanship on asset prices"
(with Francesco Bianchi and Howard Kung)
(with Francesco Bianchi and Howard Kung)
August 26th, 18h-19h CET ⚠
Reid Pryzant, Stanford
"Deconfounded Lexicon Induction for Causal Text Analysis" (related paper)
August 30th-31st, 830h-12h CET (Monday-Tuesday)
September 16th, 16h-17h CET ⚠
Anjali Adukia, Chicago
"What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books" (with A. Eble, E. Harrison, H.B. Runesha, T. Szasz)
September 23rd, 15h-16h CET ⚠
Josh Lerner and Nick Short (Harvard)
"Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents"
September 30th, 1530h-1630h CET ⚠
Zejiang Shen, AI2
"LayoutParser: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image Analysis"
October 21st, 1230h-14h CET ⚠
Raphael Parchet, USI (joint with CIS)
"Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes"
November 4th, 11h-12h CET
Wladislaw Mill, Mannheim
"War-Time Military Service Increases Religiosity: Evidence from Gravestone Photographs"
November 11th, 16h-17h CET ⚠
Nikhil Garg, Cornell
"Combatting Gerrymandering with Social Choice: the Design of Multi-member Districts"
November 18th, 15h-16h CET ⚠
Amy Handlan, Brown
"Text Shocks and Monetary Surprises: Text Analysis of FOMC Statements with Machine Learning."
December 9th, 11h-12h CET
Bruno Caprettini, UZH
"Going Viral: Propaganda, Persuasion and Polarization in 1932 Hamburg," joint with Joachim Voth, David Yanagizawa-Drott, and Marcel Caesemann.