CESifo Network

The workshop is aimed at PhD students towards the end of their PhD phase and early-career Postdoctoral researchers.

The workshop will commence at 8.45 am on Friday, 17 July and end on Saturday, 18 July at 13.15 pm. 

Germain Gauthier’s research lies at the intersection of political economy, public economics, and econometrics, with a particular focus on digital technologies and unstructured data. More recently, his ongoing research also examines how large language models may reproduce or amplify gender bias in recruitment, how social media affects protest dynamics and political mobilization, and how modern AI methods can be adapted for use in the social sciences without sacrificing interpretability.

Jonathan Moreno-Medina’s work frequently integrates tools from natural language processing, machine learning, and applied econometrics to understand how information, narratives, and institutions shape economic behavior. Mr. Moreno-Medina’s broader research spans media and political economy, crime and policing, housing economics, and text as data methods. He also works on projects connecting machine learning and AI tools to education and labor market outcomes. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Public Economics.

During his stay at CESifo, Jonathan will continue developing research at the intersection of media, housing markets, and belief formation. His agenda focuses on how biased or selective information – particularly in the news – drives perceptions of risk, property valuations, and broader urban inequalities.

Viviana Rodriguez is building a research agenda that proposes new measurements for educational achievement and links how students respond on standardized tests to how they fare in the labor market. In her ongoing project “Items and Long Run Outcomes: How to Measure Achievement and What Drives It” (with Eric Nielsen and Jonathan Moreno Medina), Ms. Rodriguez digitizes more than 3,500 Texas standardized test items and links over one billion student item records to adult earnings.

Viviana’s research is at the intersection of education economics, labor/urban economics, and public policy. During her CESifo visit, she will present and workshop the methods underlying her item level skill measurement framework.

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