Thiemo Fetzer | Professor of Economics

Month: December 2024

  • A simple pipeline to access SENNA NLP toolkit through R

    This is a repost of an older version of a blog post. This was originally posted in 2016. For my paper Social Insurance and Conflict : Evidence from India, I was using the SENNA Natural Language processing toolkit to automatically generate a conflict dataset at the district level, based on raw newspaper clippings collected from the SATP (South…

  • Are Opinion Polls Leave-Biased?

    This is a repost of a blog post from 2019 that was published also at the LSE and republished at Warwick Uni. I become increasingly sceptical of much of UK polling. There appears to be a very strange disconnect. Eurobarometer polling suggests that attitudes to the EU, if anything, appear to have become more pro-European…