Research
Working Papers
Journalist ideology and the production of news: Evidence from movers
with Jacob Conway
Last Updated: December 2022
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Taxing dissent: The impact of a social media tax in Uganda
with Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld
World Development. October 2022.
Press: Economist
Cross-country trends in affective polarization
with Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro
Review of Economics and Statistics. Accepted.
Data: Polarization measures
Press: New York Times (x2, x3), Vox, Economist, Science, The Verge, NBER Digest, FactCheck.Org, FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic
Affective polarization did not increase during the coronavirus pandemic
with Jacob Conway, James N. Druckman, and Matthew Gentzkow
Quarterly Journal of Political Science. October 2022.
Slanted images: Measuring nonverbal media bias during the 2016 election
Political Science Research and Methods. Conditionally Accepted.
with Hunt Allcott, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, and David Yang
Journal of Public Economics. November 2020.
SSRN Version, Replication Archive
Press: CNN, New York Times, Wired, Mother Jones, Reuters, LA Times, FiveThirtyEight, USA Today, Newsweek
Demographic change and political polarization in the United States
Economics Letters, July 2020.
Working Paper Version; Working Paper Version with SD Changes in Polarization
Droughts, conflict, and the African slave trade
Journal of Comparative Economics, December 2019.
Replication Archive; Rainfall Data
A note on internet use and the 2016 U.S. presidential election outcome
with Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro
PLOS One, July 2018.
Working Paper Version, Replication Files
Press: Slate
with Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2017.
Working Paper Version, Data for Polarization Measures
Press: New York Times, Economist, Vox, Science, Forbes, Washington Post, Slate, Quartz, Esquire, U.S. News, Vice, JSTOR Daily
Other Publications
Bias in news coverage during the 2016 US election: New evidence from images
VoxEU.org, October 2021.
Drivers of US political polarisation: Three stylised facts and their implications
VoxEU.org, August 2021.
The pandemic actually helped bring Americans together – briefly
with Jacob Conway, James N. Druckman, and Matthew Gentzkow
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage, August 2021.
Is media driving Americans apart?
with Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro
The New York Times, December 2017.
The internet, political polarization, and the 2016 election
with Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro
Research Briefs in Economic Policy No 88, Cato Institute, November 2017.
The internet, social media, and political polarisation
VoxEU.org, October 2017.
K-fold cross-validation and the gravity model of bilateral trade
Atlantic Economic Journal, June 2015. Best Undergraduate Paper Award.
Non-working Papers
What explains temporal and geographic variation in the early US coronavirus pandemic?
with Hunt Allcott, Jacob Conway, Billy Ferguson, Matthew Gentzkow, and Benny Goldman
Press: Vox
Last updated: November 2020
The slave trade and conflict in Africa, 1400-2000
with John T. Dalton and Tin Cheuk Leung
Last updated: June 2019
Slides
The internet, political polarization, and the 2016 election
Keynote talk, UPenn's Warren Center for Network and Data Science
Viral Deception, Polarization and Networks Workshop, November 2018.