Ethan Kaplan

Ethan Kaplan is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, his M.A. in Development economics from Stanford University in 1999 and his B.A. in History from UC Berkeley in 1992. A working paper authored by Kaplan and Stefano Della Vigna (also of the University of California at Berkeley) examining the impact of Fox News on electoral outcomes received significant attention after being cited by Alan Krueger in a New York Times op-ed.

External links and references

* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050302299.html "The Fox News Effect" (Article by Richard Morin in Washington Post)]
* [http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~sdellavi/wp/foxvote06-03-30.pdf "The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting" (Working Paper with Stefano Della Vigna)]
* [http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~drodrik/Malaysia%20controls.PDF "Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?" (Publication with Dani Rodrik)]
* [http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ekaplan/jmp_final.pdf "Political Threats and Campaign Contributions: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis" (Working Paper with Marcos Chamon)]