Politics and Media
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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 黄色电影 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
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Political polarization in the USA makes it difficult to unite the country in times of crisis, as opposed to other countries where polarization has decreased, says Matt Gentzkow.
April 08, 2020