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Ethan Kaplan is an associate professor of economics at the University of Maryland. [1]
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Ethan Kaplan is an associate professor of economics at the University of Maryland. [1]
Prior to his work at the University of Maryland, he was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, a visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and an assistant professor of economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden. [2]
A working paper [3] authored by Kaplan and Stefano DellaVigna (also of the University of California at Berkeley) examining the impact of Fox News Channel on electoral outcomes received significant attention after being cited by Alan Krueger in a New York Times op-ed. [4] In 2007, Kaplan and Stefano DellaVigna published their findings in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, finding that Fox News had a mild but statistically significant effect in boosting Republican vote share. [5]
He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005, his M.A. in development economics from Stanford University in 1999 and his B.A. in history from UC Berkeley in 1992.
John Richard Lott Jr. is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland, College Park, and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in 2013. Lott holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.
Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels. Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime, and is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago as well as the Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change at the University of Chicago. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.
Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. is an American economist. In 2007, at age 30, he became the youngest African-American to be given tenure at Harvard.
John August List is an American economist at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor; from 2012 until 2018, he served as Chairman of the Department of Economics. List is noted for his pioneering contributions to field experiments in economics. As detailed in his popular science book, The Why Axis, List uses field experiments to offer new insights in various areas of economics research, such as education, private provision of public goods, social preferences, prospect theory, environmental economics, marketplace effects on corporate and government policy decisions, and multi-unit auctions.
The Review of Economic Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering economics. It was established in 1933 by a group of economists based in Britain and the United States. The original editorial team consisted of Abba P. Lerner, Paul Sweezy, and Ursula Kathleen Hicks. It is published by Oxford University Press. The journal is widely considered one of the top 5 journals in economics. It is managed by the editorial board currently chaired by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln. The current joint managing editors are Thomas Chaney, Andrea Galeotti, Nicola Gennaioli, Veronica Guerrieri, Kurt Mitman, Francesca Molinari, Uta Schöenberg, and Adam Szeidl. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 4.767.
David Hibbard Romer is an American economist, the Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a standard textbook in graduate macroeconomics as well as many influential economic papers, particularly in the area of New Keynesian economics. He is also the husband and close collaborator of Council of Economic Advisers former Chairwoman Christina Romer.
Julio Jacobo Rotemberg was an Argentine/American economist at Harvard Business School. He was known for his collaboration with Michael Woodford on the first New Keynesian DSGE model, especially on monopolistic competition. He was also known for an alternative model of sticky prices.
Nadarajan "Raj" Chetty is an Indian-born American economist and the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University. Some of Chetty's recent papers have studied equality of opportunity in the United States and the long-term impact of teachers on students' performance. Offered tenure at the age of 28, Chetty became one of the youngest tenured faculty in the history of Harvard's economics department. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Currently, he is also an advisory editor of the Journal of Public Economics.
William P. Barnett is an American organizational theorist, and is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the BP Faculty Fellow in Global Management; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford; Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy; Director of the Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability Executive Program; and Codirector of the Executive Program in Strategy and Organization.
The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine is a 2012 book written by David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt. Brock heads the progressive media watchdog group Media Matters, the stated mission of which is "to comprehensively monitor, analyze, and correct conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." The book details the numerous controversies of Fox News, with emphasis on its president, Roger Ailes.
Ulrike M. Malmendier is a German economist who is currently a professor of economics and finance at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on behavioral economics, corporate finance, and law and economics. In 2013, she was awarded the Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association.
Timothy Jay Groseclose is an American academic. He is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where he holds the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center.
Eliana La Ferrara is an Italian economist who holds the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University, where she also acts as Scientific Director of the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Programs (LEAP). Previously, she was also the president of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) as well as the president of the European Economic Association. In terms of research, her fields of interest include development economics, political economy, and public economics.
Stefano DellaVigna is an Italian economist and the Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Como, Italy, he emigrated to the United States when he was 18. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His research focuses on behavioral economics, and he is a co-director of the Initiative for Behavioral Economics and Finance. He has published studies on the effects of Fox News on voter behavior, the effects of violent films on violent crime rates, and the response of stock market investors to corporate announcements of disappointing earnings.
Manisha Shah is an economist, as well as Vice-Chair and Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She received her PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in agricultural and resource economics in 2006. Additionally she is an editor at the Journal of Health Economics as well as a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Eva Love Vivalt is a Canadian economist. She is currently Wealth and Wellbeing Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University and the founder of AidGrade, a research institute that generates and synthesizes evidence in international development.
Dana R. Carney is an American psychologist. She is Associate Professor of Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow, an affiliate of the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Arindrajit (Arin) Dube is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, known internationally for his empirical research on the effects of minimum wage policies. His work is focused on the economics of the labor market, including the role of imperfect competition, institutions, norms, and behavioral factors that affect wage setting and jobs.
Elizabeth Cascio is an applied economist and currently Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Her research interests are in labor economics and public economics, and focus on the economic impact of policies affecting education in the United States. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Associate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and Co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources.
Raquel Fernández is an economist and currently the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University. She is also a fellow of the Econometric Society.
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