Political bias in economics
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Summary:
Zubin Jelveh, Bruce Kogut, and Suresh Naidu, "Political language in economics", The Economic Journal: Abstract: Does academic writing in economics reflect the political orientation of economists? We use machine learning to measure partisanship in academic economics articles. We predict observed political behavior of a subset of economists using the phrases from their academic articles, show […]