The institution of family in Europe is rapidly evolving, from a standard “nuclear family” model (a household with a married heterosexual couple and their biological children) to a variety of lifestyles, including partnership with no children and homosexual partnerships. In this thesis, I examine the impact of family structure, in particular, parental separation on adolescent wellbeing in Germany. For this study, I use data from the German Family Panel (pairfam) across 7 waves: 2009-10 to 2015-16, and I conduct Pooled OLS and Fixed Effects Modeling in order to understand between-subject and within-subject variations in individual wellbeing respectively.
The code for this analysis can be found here.
In this project, I examine the role of “influencers” on social media movements such as #MeToo. In particular, I seek to answer questions such as: do these influencers write original tweets on Twitter, or mostly retweet/endorse other #MeToo tweets? How can one capture the sentiment of these tweets (mostly positive or negative, or more nuanced such as optimistic vs. cautious?). For this, I extract tweets from verified Twitter users and examine the content of these tweets through various visualizations.
The code for this analysis can be found here.
FRIENDS is a very popular American television sitcom, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to say that it was one of the cultural artefacts that defined the 90’s for a lot of us. It has been 15 years since the show went off air, but FRIENDS still enjoys a considerable fan following even today. In this project, I examine the dialogues across all 10 seasons of FRIENDS, in order to better understand the “mood” of the show and the popular sentiments expressed throughout. I am also interested in the attitudes of the lead characters of the show towards gender, in particular the way men and women are referred to in the sitcom.
The code for this analysis can be found here.