Ethan Kaplan is an associate professor of economics at the
University of Maryland
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.
Career
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
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, and an assistant professor of
economics
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at the
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at
Stockholm University
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in
Sweden
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.
Papers
A working paper 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
Alan Bennett Krueger (September 17, 1960 – March 16, 2019) was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served ...
in a ''
New York Times
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'' op-ed. 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.
Education
He received his Ph.D. in economics from the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, in 2005, his M.A. in
development economics
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from
Stanford University
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in 1999 and his B.A. in
history
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from UC Berkeley in 1992.
References
External links
"Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?" (Publication with Dani Rodrik)"Political Threats and Campaign Contributions: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis" (Working Paper with Marcos Chamon)
American economists
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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