Politics and Media
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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
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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