Politics and Media
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Trailblazing economist and presidential adviser Edward Lazear dies at 72
The SIEPR senior fellow founded the field of personnel economics.
November 24, 2020
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SIEPR Policy Fellow Ramin Toloui will volunteer for the team reviewing the State Department.
November 14, 2020
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Voting by mail under normal circumstances does not appear to give either major party an advantage, according to a study by Senior Fellow Andrew Hall.
October 25, 2020
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Red, blue and purple: SIEPR Senior Fellow Jonathan Rodden addresses some of the pros and cons of geographical political divides.
October 06, 2020
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Senior Fellow Andrew Hall discusses the political tensions over voting by mail.
September 14, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom warns that the longer Congress takes to decide on federal pandemic economic relief programs, "there鈥檚 less relief bang for the buck."
August 10, 2020
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Despite high-profile concerns that all-mail elections might favor Democrats, Andrew Hall co-authored recent research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [...]
July 27, 2020
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鈥淚t is incumbent on us as scientists to convey to the American public what we鈥檙e finding and seeing very, very clearly and loudly,鈥 said SIEPR Senior Fellow Jay Bhattacharya [...]
July 14, 2020
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Andrew Hall found that universal voting by mail had no effect on partisan outcomes, did not appear to give an advantage to any particular racial, economic or age group [...]
July 07, 2020
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Grant Miller, a health economics expert, found that as states granted the vote to women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, those states invested more in sanitation [...]
June 13, 2020
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A recent study by SIEPR Senior Fellow Andrew Hall found that voting by mail did not advantage either party, and might increase voter turnout for both parties.
June 07, 2020
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Matt Gentzkow found that voter polarization in the United States nearly doubled over the last four decades, increasing at a much faster pace than in eight other developed nations.
June 03, 2020
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Matt Gentzkow, who is leading a group of researchers tracking partisanship in the virus response, said his team initially thought that a health crisis would minimize differences.
May 25, 2020
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A recent study led by SIEPR Senior Fellow Andrew Hall found that while voting by mail 鈥渕odestly increases overall average turnout rate,鈥 it does not advantage either party.
May 20, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Michael Boskin discusses several ways to reduce the health risks associated with a gradual return to normal economic activity.
April 28, 2020
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"The current crisis is a tragic collision of viral spread and political geography," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Jonathan Rodden.
April 20, 2020
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"Our study has a clear takeaway: Voting by mail does not give either party a fundamental advantage over the other," say 黄色直播 economists in a study coauthored by Andrew Hall.
April 17, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Matt Gentzkow and his colleagues found that Democrats and Republicans 鈥済enuinely differ in their beliefs about the severity of the outbreak.鈥
April 17, 2020
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SIEPR Ser Fellow Matt Gentzkow discusses his current research involving the differences between political parties in the ways that people are responding to the coronavirus pandemic
April 15, 2020
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Republicans say they're less afraid of Covid-19 than Democrats, & SIEPR Sr Fellow Matt Gentzkow's new research shows that their social distancing behaviors are influenced by this.
April 15, 2020