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Gender GAP in bankruptcy filings

Project Information

Project Status: In Progress
Project Region: CAREERS
Submitted By: Carrie Brown
Project Email: sorokina@psu.edu
Project Institution: Penn State University
Anchor Institution: CR-Penn State

Students: Mark Fahim

Project Description

Use PACER datasets to collect bankruptcy filings and identify cases filed for business reasons, then design a web-scraper to collect names of the petitioners and other information from the bankruptcy petitions and further develop textual analysis-based routine to analyze names and classify bankruptcy filings by gender.

Project Information

Project Status: In Progress
Project Region: CAREERS
Submitted By: Carrie Brown
Project Email: sorokina@psu.edu
Project Institution: Penn State University
Anchor Institution: CR-Penn State

Students: Mark Fahim

Project Description

Use PACER datasets to collect bankruptcy filings and identify cases filed for business reasons, then design a web-scraper to collect names of the petitioners and other information from the bankruptcy petitions and further develop textual analysis-based routine to analyze names and classify bankruptcy filings by gender.