Past Events

  • 2023 Nov 01

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    Repeats every week every Wednesday until Wed Aug 28 2024 except Wed Dec 27 2023, Wed Mar 13 2024, Wed Jun 19 2024.
    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual via Zoom

    Weekly office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 6.0. Demo of 6.0 will begin promptly at 11am.

    Open Hours: Wednesdays, 11AM - 1PM

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  • 2023 Oct 31

    Dorothy Manevich (APRW)

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS Knafel, room K354 or Online via Zoom

    Speaker

    Dorothy Manevich, "Topographies of Participation: How Social Compatibility Influences Activist Behavior"

    Abstract

    As activists go through a campaign, they are constantly making decisions about the scope of their participation. They choose how often to engage, who to engage with, and which activities to engage in. In this paper I argue that social compatibility, or the extent to which an activist perceives their social network to be in political alignment with them, influences how they participate. I present the results of an original survey...

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  • 2023 Oct 26

    Jacob Moscona (Alesina Seminar)

    4:30pm to 5:45pm

    Location: 

    Littauer 301 (Hansen-Mason Lounge)

    Today's Speaker

    Jacob Moscona (Department of Economics), "Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital and the Developing World" (co-authors: Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, David Yang)

    Abstract

    Global high-potential entrepreneurship was traditionally dominated by rich countries, especially the US, until the rise of China as a venture capital powerhouse. We explore the international ramifications of China's rise for entrepreneurship in emerging economies, using comprehensive data on global venture activities. We document three sets of findings. First, as the Chinese venture industry rose in importance, investment increased substantially in other emerging markets, particularly in sectors led by China. This effect was driven by country-sector pairs most economically similar to China. Second, the increase in venture investments in emerging economies was spurred by local investors and new firms whose business models more closely resembled those of their Chinese counterparts. The findings are not driven by Chinese investors, by countries politically connected to China, or by sectors explicitly prioritized by the Chinese government. Third, this growth in emerging-market investment had positive cross-sector spillovers on industries in which China was not a global leader and city-level effects on both venture activity and patenting. Taken together, our findings suggest that a system where only rich countries lead in innovation could limit the appropriateness of capital allocation and entrepreneurial activity in developing countries.... Read more about Jacob Moscona (Alesina Seminar)

  • 2023 Oct 25

    Melody Huang (Workshop in Applied Statistics)

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS Knafel, room K354 or Online via Zoom

    This Week's Speaker

    Melody Huang (HDSI), "Sensitivity Analysis for External Validity"

    Abstract

    TBA

    The Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) meets all academic year, Wednesdays, 12pm-1:30pm, in CGIS K354. This workshop is a forum for advanced graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars to present and discuss methodological or empirical work in progress in an interdisciplinary setting. The workshop features a tour of Harvard's statistical innovations and applications with weekly stops in different fields and disciplines and...

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  • 2023 Oct 25

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual via Zoom

    Weekly office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 6.0. Demo of 6.0 will begin promptly at 11am.

    Open Hours: Wednesdays, 11AM - 1PM

    RSVP required to: support@dataverse.org

    For any questions on how to share your data with Dataverse, contact: support@dataverse.org

     

  • 2023 Oct 24

    Marco M. Aviña (APRW)

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS Knafel, room K354 or Online via Zoom

    Speaker

    Marco Mendoza Aviña, "Does Diversity Undermine Support for Redistribution" (with Marcel F. Roman)

    Abstract

    With rising income and wealth inequality in the U.S., demand for redistribution might be expected to increase. However, mass support for progressive fiscal and social policy remains stagnant. Concomitantly, the country is steadily diversifying along ethno-racial lines, with non-white Americans projected to make up a majority of the population by 2045. Influential theories in political economy and political behavior contend...

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  • 2023 Oct 19

    Natalia Garbiras-Díaz (Alesina Seminar)

    4:30pm to 5:45pm

    Location: 

    Littauer 301 (Hansen-Mason Lounge)

    Today's Speaker

    Natalia Garbiras-Díaz (Harvard Business School), "Corruption and the Rise of Political Outsiders: Evidence from Audits and Local Elections in Brazil"

    Abstract

    How does corruption salience influence the entry of political outsiders? While revelations about corruption are known to shape citizens’ votes, it is unclear whether outsiders take advantage of corruption scandals to contest elections. I argue that corruption is a valence issue that allows outsider candidates to draw support from disaffected voters across the ideological spectrum. To test this theory, first, I construct a novel measure of candidates' use of anti-corruption rhetoric using manifestos registered by over forty-nine thousand mayoral candidates in Brazil who ran for election between 2012 and 2020. These data reveal that outsiders, especially those who adopt more centrist positions, are more likely to resort to this valence appeal. Second, I use random annual audits conducted by the federal government as a source of exogenous variation in corruption revelations in Brazilian mayoral accounts and show that municipalities exposed to these shocks experience a greater entry of outsider candidates. However, outsiders do not obtain better electoral results. The evidence suggests that this may be due to mainstream candidates adjusting their campaign strategies in response to outsider entry. In particular, I find that non-outsiders, when exposed to this shock, mimic outsiders by adopting their anti-corruption rhetoric. This paper demonstrates how an increase in the salience of corruption can spur the emergence of outsiders and highlights consequential and understudied indirect effects of corruption on the persistence of democracy.
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  • 2023 Oct 18

    Dae Woong Ham (Workshop in Applied Statistics)

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS Knafel, room K354 or Online via Zoom

    This Week's Speaker

    Dae Woong Ham (Department of Statistics), "Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation"

    Abstract

    Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to innovation. Since many experiments are on customers arriving sequentially, a potential solution is to allow managers to...

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  • 2023 Oct 18

    Internet Communication of Ukrainian Companies in Wartime: Preliminary Results of a One-Year WebAI Analysis

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, room S030 (Lee Gathering Room) or Online via Zoom

    Speaker

    Dr. Jan Kinne

    Abstract

    ISTARI webAI is an AI-based analysis tool that can be used to retrieve and analyze company websites. WebAI is primarily used to provide a searchable, real-time view of the activities and technologies of approximately 20 million companies in Europe and North America. For this research project, the websites of tens of thousands of Ukrainian companies have been scanned monthly using webAI starting in September 2022 and analyzed in terms of their communications related to the Russian-...

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  • 2023 Oct 18

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual via Zoom

    Weekly office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 6.0. Demo of 6.0 will begin promptly at 11am.

    Open Hours: Wednesdays, 11AM - 1PM

    RSVP required to: support@dataverse.org

    For any questions on how to share your data with Dataverse, contact: support@dataverse.org

     

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