Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

This article provides an overview of the methods used for algorithmic text analysis in
economics, with a focus on three key contributions. First, we introduce methods for …

I study how people understand, reason, and learn about two major tax policies: income
taxation and estate taxation. Using large-scale social economics surveys issued to …

We measure trends in affective polarization in twelve OECD countries over the past four
decades. According to our baseline estimates, the United States experienced the largest …

The rise of opinion programs has transformed television news. Because they present
anchors' subjective commentary and analysis, opinion programs often convey conflicting …

We study whether social media can amplify antiminority sentiment with a focus on Donald
Trump's political rise. Using an instrumental variable strategy based on Twitter's early …

We use the General Social Survey (GSS) to measure cultural distance for social attitudes.
We use 18 interspersed years from 1976 to 2016 (1976, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 …

Throughout the Western world, people's policy views are correlated across domains in a
strikingly similar fashion. This article proposes that what partly explains the structure of …

Polarization is implicated in the erosion of democracy and the progression to violence,
which makes the polarization properties of large algorithmic content selection systems …

We study the online and offline effects of content moderation on social media using the
introduction of Germany's" Network Enforcement Act"(NetzDG), which fines social media …