[EN] Monitoring fertility change is particularly important for policy and planning
purposes. New data may help us in this monitoring. We propose a new
leading indicator based on Google web-searches. We then test its ...
[EN] Text data gathered from social media are extremely up-to-date and have a great potential value for economic research. At the same time, they pose some challenges, as they require different statistical methods from the ...
[EN] The aim of this work is to propose a strategy to classify texts (or parts of them) in an ordinal emotional scale to gauge a sentiment indicator in every domain. In particular, we develop a new dictionary for the Italian ...