Allcott,Hunt Volney
Professor at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and, Professor, by courtesy, of Economics
Social Sciences Division
Web page: http://allcott.stanford.edu
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Social Sciences Division
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Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
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Professor (By courtesy), Economics
2022-23 Courses
- Empirical Environmental Economics
SUSTAIN 130 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (1)
- Directed Reading
ECON 239D (Spr, Sum)
- Directed Reading
All Publications
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Digital Addiction
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2022; 112 (7): 2424-2463
View details for DOI 10.1257/aer.20210867
View details for Web of Science ID 000823623000010
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The Welfare Effects of Social Media
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2020; 110 (3): 629–76
View details for DOI 10.1257/aer.20190658
View details for Web of Science ID 000522716800001
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Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Journal of public economics
2020: 104254
Abstract
We study partisan differences in Americans' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Political leaders and media outlets on the right and left have sent divergent messages about the severity of the crisis, which could impact the extent to which Republicans and Democrats engage in social distancing and other efforts to reduce disease transmission. We develop a simple model of a pandemic response with heterogeneous agents that clarifies the causes and consequences of heterogeneous responses. We use location data from a large sample of smartphones to show that areas with more Republicans engaged in less social distancing, controlling for other factors including public policies, population density, and local COVID cases and deaths. We then present new survey evidence of significant gaps at the individual level between Republicans and Democrats in self-reported social distancing, beliefs about personal COVID risk, and beliefs about the future severity of the pandemic.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104254
View details for PubMedID 32836504
View details for PubMedCentralID PMC7409721
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FOOD DESERTS AND THE CAUSES OF NUTRITIONAL INEQUALITY
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
2019; 134 (4): 1793–1844
View details for DOI 10.1093/qje/qjz015
View details for Web of Science ID 000489163400003
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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
2017; 31 (2): 211-235
View details for DOI 10.1257/jep.31.2.211
View details for Web of Science ID 000403753100010
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Social, Economic, and Ethical Concepts and Methods
CLIMATE CHANGE 2014: MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
2014: 207–82
View details for Web of Science ID 000372635100007