Ethan Kaplan

Ethan Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park. His research spans the areas of political economy, labor economics, applied microeconomics, economic inequality and empirical macroeconomics.

Department of Economics
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, Maryland 20742

E-mail: ethan.kaplan at gmail.com

Telephone: 301 405 3501

Resume and Teaching

Recent Papers

• Between Government and Market: The Political Economics of Labor Unions (with Suresh Naidu), prepared for the Annual Review of Economics (2024) New
• Does Schooling Create Democratic Voters? Turnout and Partisan Consequences of Additional Education (with Jorg Spenkuch and Cody Tuttle) New
• Have Corporations Polarized Politically Too? Evidence from U.S. Campaign Contributions Over Time (with Jorge Perilla-Garcia, Andrew Sweeting and Yidan Xu) New
• Peer Effects on Partisanship, Registration, and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Roommate Assignments (with Kenneth Coriale and Rachel Nesbit) New
• Political Control Over Redistricting and the Partisan Balance in Congress (with Kenneth Coriale and Daniel Kolliner) New
• School Desegregation and Political Preferences: Long-Run Evidence from Kentucky (with Jorg Spenkuch and Cody Tuttle) New
• Excess Capacity and Heterogeneity in the Fiscal Multiplier: Evidence from the Obama Stimulus Package (with Arindrajit Dube, Thomas Hegland and Ben Zipperer)
• The Persistence of Political Partisanship: Evidence from 9/11 (with Sharun Mukand)

Revisions Requested

Published or Accepted for Publication

• Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics (with Jorg Spenkuch and Haishan Yuan) at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, (Forthcoming)
• Voting for Democracy: Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation (with Fernando Saltiel and Sergio Urzua), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, (August, 2023)
• Partisan Spatial Sorting in the United States: A Theoretical and Empirical Overview (with Jorg Spenkuch and Rebecca Sullivan), the Journal of Public Economics, (July, 2022)
• Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment (with Christopher Boone, Arindrajit Dube, and Lucas Goodman), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, (May, 2021)
• Early Voting Laws, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Vote Composition: Evidence from Ohio (with Haishan Yuan), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, (January, 2020)
• Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes (with Arindrajit Dube and Owen Thompson), Industrial and Labor Relations Review , (August, 2016)
• The Political Economy of Discretionary Spending: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (with Christopher Boone and Arindrajit Dube), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity , (Fall, 2014)
• The Iceberg Theory of Campaign Contributions: Political Threats and Interest Group Behavior (with Marcos Chamon), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, (January, 2013)
• Political Polarization and the Dynamics of Political Language: Evidence from 130 Years of Partisan Speech (with Jacob Jensen, Suresh Naidu and Laurence Wilse-Samson), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity , (Fall, 2012)
• Occupy Wall Street and the Political Economy of Inequality (with Arindrajit Dube), Economist's Voice, (March, 2012)
• Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information (with Arindrajit Dube and Suresh Naidu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, (August, 2011)
• Outsourcing, Wages and Benefits (with Arindrajit Dube), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (January, 2010)
• The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting (with Stefano Della Vigna), Quarterly Journal of Economics (August, 2007)
• Aggregate Demand Externalities and Labor Supply Decisions: Worker Discouragement and Market Inefficiency (with Arindrajit Dube) Economics Letters (September, 1997)

Published Book Chapters

• The Political Impact of Media Bias (with Stefano Della Vigna) in Islam, Roumeen ed., The Effects of Mass Media on Public Policy (2008)
• Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work? (with Dani Rodrik) in Edwards, Sebastian and Jeffrey Frankel ed., Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets (2002)

Other Academic Papers

• Playing Parties Against Eachother in Proportional Representation Systems (with Marcos Chamon)
• Imperfect Common Knowledge and Exchange Rate Determination
• The Labor Boundaries of the Firm: Employment and Independent Contracting (with Arindrajit Dube)

Data

• Top Marginal Tax Rates and Growth (blog post)

Grants

• Insitute for New Economic Thinking: $225,000: A Spatial Approach to Macroeconomic Inference [October, 2010] (with Arindrajit Dube)

Policy Papers

• Paid Family Leave in California: An Analysis of Costs and Benefits (with Arindrajit Dube)
• Imperfect Common Knowledge and Learning in the Swedish Kronor Market (with Galina Hale)

Popular Press Coverage

• MSNBC Coverage on Political Economy of Stimulus (Suzy Khimm)
• Washington Post Coverage on Political Economy of Stimulus (Christopher Ingraham)
• Wall Street Journal Coverage on Political Economy of Stimulus (Pedro Nicolaci Da Costa)
• The Atlantic on Political Polarization and Dynamics of Political Language (Michael Zuckerman)
• New Yorker on Political Polarization and Dynamics of Political Language (Jill Lepore)
• Washington Post Coverage on Outsourcing and Wages (Catherine Rampell)
• Paul Krugman blog on Outsourcing and Wages (Paul Krugman)
• Slate Coverage on 9/11 (Ray Fisman)
• Slate Coverage on Coups (Ray Fisman)
• Washington Post Coverage on Fox News (Richard Morin)
• New York Times Coverage on Fox News (Alan Krueger)
• Project Syndicate Coverage on Capital Controls (Ethan Kaplan and Dani Rodrik)