Ethan Kaplan is an associate professor of economics at the

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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

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, and an assistant professor of

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at the Institute for International Economic Studies at

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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 The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City, U.S. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is ow ...

on electoral outcomes received significant attention after being cited by

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in a ''

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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

, in 2005, his M.A. in

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from

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in 1999 and his B.A. in

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

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)
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