Jeffrey Dennis Milyo is an American economist and professor of economics at the

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. He is also a senior fellow at the

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. One of his best-known studies is a 2005 one that he co-authored with Timothy Groseclose examining

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. The study concluded that most major media outlets in

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have a liberal bias, although its methodology has been criticized. He has also researched the political effects of campaign finance laws in the United States.

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