Politics and Media
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At a recent Congressional hearing, the chief executives of Wall Street's six largest banks were asked to name the greatest threat to their companies and the wider financial system.
July 03, 2021
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Hooked on your smartphone?
Social media and smartphone use rank above watching television, smoking and boozing in the top five things people think they ought to be doing less of.
June 21, 2021
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SIEPR seeks Director of Partnerships
SIEPR's new Director of Partnerships will play an instrumental role in working with external groups and organizations to engage our community of faculty, visitors, students [...]
May 20, 2021
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Senior Fellow Andrew Hall's research is cited in this column about voting rights.
March 16, 2021
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Research by Senior Fellow Andrew Hall shows that voting by mail didn鈥檛 increase voter turnout or give Joe Biden an Election Day edge.
March 05, 2021
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As President Trump's second impeachment trial gets underway, SIEPR's Andrew Hall debunks claims of widespread election fraud and dead people voting, pointing to his research [...]
February 08, 2021
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SIEPR's Andrew Hall says a proposal in Georgia to roll back voting-by-mail is not the way to improve a system that voters just showed they liked in the 2020 election.
February 08, 2021
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As Janet Yellen's confirmation hearings for Treasury Secretary get underway, John Taylor provides his insights on how economic policy will look like under her tenure.
January 18, 2021
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Saumitra Jha draws historical parallels to what happened at the US Capitol in January and explains his research on how social networks of influential individuals can undermine[...]
January 17, 2021
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As Parler, a conservative social media platform, fights against getting cut off by various tech giants, Bloomberg taps SIEPR Sr Fellow Alan Sykes for input on its antitrust claim.
January 11, 2021
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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