NBER Public Economics Program Meeting, Spring 2024

NBER Public Economics Program Meeting, Spring 2024

Upcoming - NBER public econ meeting October 19th

Stefanie Stantcheva will be a speaker at the NBER Public Economics Program Meeting, Spring 2024. She will present and discuss the working paper “Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Divides“, with co-authors Sahil Chinoy (Harvard University), Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia) and Sandra Sequeira (London School of Economics).

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New working paper: Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides

The authors investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking – the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of a representative sample of 20,400 US residents, they measure zero-sum thinking, political preferences, policy views, and a rich array of ancestral information spanning four generations.

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