Dr. Jaime Marques-Pereira

Jaime Marques-Pereira is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics and Data Science at the Department of Economics at Lancaster University..

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University and a M.Sc. in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics. His research focuses on applied microeconomics, with an emphasis on political and media economics.

His research focuses on applied microeconomics, with an emphasis on political and media economics. He uses text-as-data methods, natural language processing, and machine learning to analyze unstructured data such as text, images, and audio. His work studies how media content and information environments shape voter and political behavior, political polarization, and public opinion.